Höegh LNG and Aker BP form strategic partnership in Norway for carbon transport and storage solutions
Norwegian companies Höegh LNG and Aker BP have entered a strategic partnership to develop a carbon transport and storage offering for industrial carbon-dioxide emitters in Northern Europe.
Norwegian government imposes end to energy industry strike that would have cut half of gas supply to Europe
The Norwegian government has imposed compulsory arbitration under the labour laws to terminate strike action in the pay dispute involving onshore and offshore union members that could have halted more than half of Norway’s natural gas exports to Europe with effect from July 9.
Italian LNG project company Saipem awarded drilling contract by Aker BP worth $325M for off Norway
Saipem, the Italian energy and LNG engineering company and an offshore specialist, has been awarded a contract by Aker BP for a drilling campaign offshore Norway as upstream activities are set to increase.
Norway gas field award
Dec 12 (LNGJ) - The Europe-based offshore development company Subsea 7 SA has been awarded a contract by Aker BP for the Aerfugl Phase 2 natural gas field development, located about 210 kilometres west of Sandnessjoen in the Norwegian Sea. Norway is one of the largest pipeline natural gas suppliers to Western Europe, along with Russian company Gazprom, and both sources compete with LNG shipments.
The Subsea 7 engineering, procurement, construction and installation contact is a long-distance tie-back involving the application of Subsea 7’s Electrically Heat Traced Flowline (EHTF) technology for a distance of 13.5km from the subsea location to the existing Skarv infrastructure. Subsea 7 has a long-term subsea alliance agreement with Aker BP.
“This award acknowledges Subsea 7 as a key partner in the delivery of pioneering technology, underlining our proven track record of safe and successful project execution in some of the harshest offshore environments,” said Monica Th. Bjokmann, Vice President of Subsea 7 Norway.
Norway awards record 75 licences with Statoil and future merged German firm big winners
Norway has awarded a record number of 75 licences for natural gas and oil exploration in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea with Norwegian company Statoil having the highest number of awards and one of the other biggest gainers being Germany’s Deutsche Erdoel AG (DEA) and Wintershall who will merge soon into a single company.
