Tag: Equinor

Brazilian energy major Petrobras (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Norwegian oil major Equinor to evaluate a joint business development in the offshore wind energy industry in Brazil.

Equinor launched a video of the hook-up and commissioning operations on its Mariner platform in the UK North Sea. 800 people are working offshore on the huge hook-up operation to prepare the platform for production. Mariner is the largest field development on the UK continental shelf in recent years. 

On Friday, oil majors Equinor, Shell and Total, submitted an application for an exploitation permit for a subsea reservoir for injection and storage of CO2, under the 'Northern Lights' project . This was the very first time the authorities have announced a licensing round for injection and storage of CO2.

In mid-August, Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) carried out an audit of drilling and emergency preparedness on Equinor's Snorre B facility, in the North Sea. The audit did not identify any non-conformities, but two improvement points. 

Norway's PSA carried out an audit of Equinor's management of barriers within technical safety, process safety and electrical facilities on the Gudrun field. The audit identified regulatory non-conformities in respect of methods for establishing design loads for fires and of deficient non-conformity handling. 

Equinor and partners at Gullfaks and Snorre have decided to explore the possibilities of supplying the Gullfaks and Snorre fields with power from floating offshore wind. If this happens it would be the first time an offshore wind farm is directly connected to oil and gas platforms.

Norwegian oil major Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup partnership of Lundin Norway, Petoro, Aker BP and Total, announced they are submitting the development plan for the second phase of the Johan Sverdrup offshore oil project to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. 

On 25 July 2018, PSA Norway carried out an audit of the follow-up of materials handling, cranes and lifting on 'Martin Linge B', the FSO unit that was recently installed in North Sea. The audit detected non-conformities in procedures for cranes and lifting operations, completion of cranes and training.

Norway's PSA has given the Norwegian oil firm DEA Norge consent for exploration drilling in block 7321/4 in the Barents Sea. Earlier in July, PSA granted oil major Equinor consent for exploration drilling in block 7132/2, as well as 7220/5-3 in production licence 532 in the Barents Sea.

Norwegian oil major Equinor issued a video depicting the installation of four huge modules at the Martin Linge field, in the North Sea, last week. The largest module lifted into place by Thialf was a whopping 10,500 tonnes. The hook up now begins, connecting steel, pipes and cables.