Wintershall makes North Sea discovery
Wintershall has made North Sea oil discovery, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) today confirmed.
Wintershall has made North Sea oil discovery, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) today confirmed.
BASF SE’s Wintershall unit is studying how it can participate in a project to expand a link from Russia to Germany into the European Union’s biggest gas import point.
Wintershall’s success with its Maria project proves the company wasn’t crazy to take it on, according to the firm’s executive director of exploration and production in Europe.
A consortium of Gazprom and five European allies has withdrawn its application to set up a Polish joint venture to build the Nord Stream 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
DNV GL has won a five-year contract from Wintershall to provide in-service verification work for the company's RAVN and A6-A platforms.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall approval for a drilling permit for a well in the North Sea.
Completions specialist Tendeka has won a four-year contract with Wintershall with a further four-year extension option.
Wintershall and its drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling have been given a deadline of August 2 to tell Norwegian authorities how it will make improvements and correct non-conformities in its emergency preparedness on the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall a drilling permit for wildcat well in the Norwegian sea.
Wintershall has awarded Halliburton a four-year contract to support its exploration and development projects in Norway.
Wintershall has been granted consent by the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) in Norway for an exploration licence in the North Sea.
Gernmany's Wintershall has commemorated the first anniversary of taking over the Vega subsea oil and gas field with this new animation.
The chief executive of Faroe Petroleum has described as "disappointing" the failure to make a commercial oil discovery from its Kavalross prospect in the Barents sea.
Wintershall has delayed a decision on a concept selection for its Skarfjell project off the coast of Norway.
Odfjell's Deepsea Stavaner has been signed up by JX Nippon Exploration and Production to drill one exploration well West of Shetland.
Kongsberg has been awarded a three-year contract by Wintershall for provision of its SiteCom real-time data aggregation and visualisation technology for well construction.
Wintershall has made a minor oil discovery in the North Sea.
Wintershall has awarded Odfjell Drilling's semi-submersible Deepsea Stavanger a $175million contract for the drilling of production wells on the Maria field in the Haltenbanken area of the North Sea.
Wintershall and its partners Petoro and Centrica have been given approval by the Norwegian government for the development and operation (PDO) of the Maria field.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/12-5 S. The well will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling facility after concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6507/3-11 for E.ON E & P. The area in the permit consists of parts of blocks 35/8 and 35/11.
Two companies are leading the way as they look at production efficiency challenges and how they can be overcome in the North Sea oil and gas industry. In a new whitepaper, both EnQuest and Wintershall explain how they are also working on future considerations and development plans within the UKCS.
UK-based Sequa Petroleum has reached agreement to buy a portfolio of Norwegian offshore field interests for $602 million from Wintershall, the oil and gas subsidiary of BASF, the companies said on Thursday. Sequa said the transaction will be conducted by Oslo-based Tellus Petroleum Invest A/S, which it is also buying in a concurrent deal for $4 million plus 6 million shares in Sequa. The agreement with Wintershall will give Tellus interests in five fields - 20 percent of Knarr, 15 percent of Maria, 10 percent of Yme, 6.5 percent of Ivar Aasen and 4.5 percent of Veslefrikk.
Wintershall’s wildcat well has come up dry.
Wintershall confirmed it will sell a group of its Norwegian assets to Tellus Petroleum for $602million.
The NPD (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate) said Wintershall has made a small gas discovery at the Kristin field. The company said the wildcat well 6406/2-8 had encountered two oil columns over a 130 metre interval in the Bat and Fangst groups. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres south of the Kristin field in the Norwegian Sea and 190 kilometres northwest of Kristiansund.