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Oil&Gas Drilling

Vår Energi Granted License to Drill North Sea Exploration Well

Vår Energi ASA has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate to drill in the North Sea.Exploration well 7/1-3 will be drilled in production l…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Dolphin Drilling Emerges as Winner in Arbitration Saga Over Rig Termination Deal

Norway-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling has disclosed a positive outcome of arbitration proceedings with Lagos-based General Hydrocar…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Aker BP Gets Green Light for Drilling Ops in Norwegian Sea

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has granted Aker BP two drilling permits for wildcat wells in the Norwegian Sea.The permits are for wellbore 6306/6-3 S in pr…

Green Hydrogen

Provaris Advances Hydrogen Supply Chain With Uniper and Norwegian Hydrogen

Significant Progress Made on Finalizing a Term Sheet With Uniper and Norwegian Hydrogen for a Hydrogen Sale and Purchase Agreement (Spa) Outlining Key Commercia…

Solar Power Plant

Scatec Secures Financing for 60 MW of Solar in Botswana

Norway’s Scatec ASA has reached financial close on a 60 MW solar plant in Botswana. The project will be developed as section of a broader 120 MW complex i…

Floating Offshore Wind

Licence Application for Norwegian Floating Wind Project Submitted

The consortium behind the GoliatVIND floating offshore wind farm has submitted the licence application for the project to the Norwegian Ministry of Energy.The c…

Oil&Gas Drilling

New Oil Discovery Boosts Barents Sea Potential With 20 More Wells on the Drilling Horizon

Norwegian oil and gas player Vår Energi has discovered oil resources in an appraisal well near the Goliat field in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway…

Biofuel

Biofuel Included in Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s Two New Multi-Year Shipping Deals

Norwegian shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen has secured two multi-year shipping contracts, both including biofuel, with undisclosed large auto…

Tender/bid

German Onshore Wind Tender Awards 4GW

Image: RWEGermany’s Federal Network Agency has awarded 4GW of capacity in the latest onshore wind tender results.More than 6GW of bids were submitted to the ov…

SMR

Amentum Evaluates SMR Potential in Norway

US-based Amentum and Norwegian engineering and architecture company Multiconsult Norge have been selected by Halden Kjernekraft to evaluate deployment of a smal…

Oil Exploration

ORLEN Ramps up Its Exploration Activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

A total of 6 exploration and appraisal wells were completed by ORLEN Upstream Norway in 2024, 4 more than the previous year. As a result, the company discovered…

Nuclear Reactor

Firms Selected to Evaluate SMR Deployment in Halden

US-based engineering company Amentum and Norwegian consulting firm Multiconsult Norge AS have been appointed by Halden Kjernekraft AS to evaluate the potential …

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Norwegian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Firm Teco 2030 Goes Bankrupt

Norwegian hydrogen fuel cell firm TECO 2030 has filed for bankruptcy, just days after its subsidiary fell into insolvency.In a short press release on December 1…

Natural Gas

Partners in Norwegian Sea Gas Discovery Mulling Over Tie-Back to Existing Infrastructure

Harbour Energy, former Wintershall Dea, has undertaken appraisal activities with one of Transocean’s rigs at a gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea, 270 kil…

Solar project

Norwegian Platform Invests $50 Million in Egyptian Renewables

Empower New Energy, a Norwegian solar investment platform, has signed a $50 million agreement with Egyptian independent power producer Engazaat to fund a renewa…