ABL Gets Neptun Deep Job for OMV Petrom in Black Sea
OMV Petrom has appointed global energy and marine consultancy ABL to provide Marine Warranty Survey (MWS) services for the construction of Romania’s Neptun Deep gas field project in the Black Sea.ABL’s London operation has won the contract to provide MWS services to review, survey and approve all operations relating to the transportation and installation (T&I) of critical project assets for development of both Domino and Pelican South fields.ABL’s scope of work includes the T&I of the shallow water platform, subsea installation at both fields including a 160 km subsea pipeline
Shearwater in 'Pioneering' Seismic Survey Project Offshore Norway
Offshore seismic survey specialist Shearwater on Friday announced a new project with the Austrian oil firm OMV for a "pioneering" towed streamer survey with Ocean Bottom Nodes over the Berling gas and condensate discovery in the Norwegian Sea. Spanning 1040 sq.km, this hybrid survey starts in July 2023 and will last for three months. Shearwater's vessels, SW Tasman and Oceanic Vega, will lead the operations. SW Tasman will operate as an ROV node deployment vessel for first time, following its conversion announced in October, 2022 and will deploy the nodes before Oceanic
IKM Works on Pipeline, Umbilicals Concept for Equinor's Barents Sea Oil Discovery
IKM Ocean Design has won a contract with Equinor for a pipeline engineering concept study for the Wisting oil field in the Barents Sea.Wisting, located in the Barents Sea, 300 kilometers from Norway’s northern coast, in a water depth of 400 meters was discovered by OMV in 2013.Equinor in December 2019 took over the operatorship for the development phase, while OMV will assume the role as the operator for the operation phase.Under the contract awarded to IKM Ocean Design, the company will be responsible for the conceptual design of the Wisting pipelines and umbilical’s routing and overall
Equinor's $466M Floating Wind Farm Plan Approved
,000 tonnes per year when it starts operations in 2022, it added.The Norwegian government has agreed to provide 2.3 billion crowns in financial support, in addition to 566 million crowns from the industry's NOx fund, set up to reduce emissions from ships.Equinor's partners in the two licenses are OMV, Idemitsu, Wintershall Dea, Eni's Vaar Energi, and state-owned Petoro. ($1 = 10.3103 Norwegian crowns) (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Terje Solsvik and Barbara Lewis
Equinor Awards Hywind Tampen Contracts
to NOK 5 billion ($543.3 million). All contracts are subject to final approval of the plan for development and operation (PDO) by Norwegian authorities. The wind farm is scheduled to start production at the end of 2022.The Gullfaks licence partners are Equinor Energy AS: 51%, Petoro AS: 30% and OMV (Norge) AS: 19The Snorre licence partners are Equinor Energy AS: 33.3%, Petoro AS: 30%, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway AS: 17.5%, Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS: 9.6%, DEA Norge AS: 8.6%, Vår Energi AS: 1.1
TechnipFMC Bags EPCI Work for Luno II and Rolvsnes
Grieg field. The field will be developed with a subsea installation, and the well stream will be sent to the Edvard Grieg platform for processing and further transport. Estimated resources are between 40 and 100 Mmboe.Lundin Norway has a 65% working interest in Luno II. Its partners in the field are OMV (20%) and Wintershall (15%).The Rolvsnes discovery was made in 2009 in license PL 338C, which is located between Edvard Grieg and Luno II. Estimated resources are between 14 and 78 Mmboe. The Rolvsnes reservoir is situated in fractured and weathered bedrock. This is a reservoir type which not has
CGG Renews Cooperation with OMV
French-based geophysical services company CGG announced Tuesday that its contract with Austrian integrated oil and gas company OMV to operate a dedicated center at its head office in Vienna has been renewed for a further three years.The two companies have worked together as strategic partners since the center first opened in 1979. The tailored service delivered by in-house geoscientists gives OMV access to CGG’s latest technologies as well as the support of experts and compute capacity from CGG’s Paris and London hubs.OMV will continue to have onsite access to CGG’s subsurface
US warns sanctions still an option against Nord Stream 2
ourselves in that position."Gazprom is the sole shareholder in Nord Stream 2, shouldering half of the 9.5 billion euro ($10.7 billion) construction cost. Gazprom's Western partners are Germany's Uniper and Wintershall, Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell, France's Engie and Austria's OMV.($1 = 0.8888 euros)(Reporting by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Adrian Croft
Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline is 70% Financed so Far
cubic metres of gas a year, is owned by Gazprom, which is taking on half of the planned costs of 9.5 billion euros ($11 billion).The rest is divided between five European energy companies - Germany's Uniper and Wintershall, Anglo- Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell, France's Engie and Austria's OMV.($1 = 0.8679 euros)(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Susan Fenton
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