Tag Archives: Norway

Equinor has selected the family-owned industrial group Wergeland as its preferred supplier for the fabrication of foundations and the assembly of turbines for floating offshore wind projects. The Norwegian energy giant said the agreement is aimed at ensuring industrial capacity to develop offshore wind in Norway, where activities are gathered …

Norway has handed over more than 240 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian energy sector. Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Energy Yaroslav Demchenkov stated this at a meeting with representatives of the Norwegian Embassy in Ukraine, Ukrinform reports, referring to the ministry’s press service. It is noted that Demchenkov told …

Norway’s government plans to submit to Parliament in the coming weeks plans to open a large area to deep sea mining as it seeks to access and extract critical minerals from the seabed. The government has prepared an impact assessment which was open for comments until the end of January …

Norway’s plan to nationalize natural gas assets includes more than just Gassled’s natural gas pipelines, new information revealed in a letter from the Norwegian energy minister showed on Friday. The surprise move to nationalize the country’s gas assets will also include other assets—including the Nyhamna processing plant. Last Friday, Norway’s …

Norway will nationalize all of its natural gas pipelines within the next five years, the country’s oil and energy ministry said on Friday. The nationalization plan would provide Norway with greater control over its critical infrastructure. Standing in the way of an immediate nationalization are existing concessions, which aren’t due …

The continuous shift in oil trade flows following the EU embargo on Russian exports is a huge win for the crude from Western Europe’s largest oilfield offshore Norway. Norway’s Johan Sverdrup crude is now a top choice for European refineries that used to rely on Russia’s flagship grade, Urals, before …

Norway-based oil and gas company Noreco, to be renamed BlueNord, has set the wheels into motion to participate in a mini-round of licencing in the Danish sector of the North Sea. Noreco revealed on Wednesday, 12 April 2023, that it had submitted a licence application for acreage containing the Elly-Luke …

Norway has replaced Russia as the biggest gas supplier of Europe, said the EU Commissioner Kadri Simson, as she was addressing a committee meeting and a press conference in the European Parliament, Trend reports via the European Commission. “Since September 2022, Russian gas is about 8 percent of all pipeline …

Norwegian energy company Equinor on Friday said it joined Germany’s EnBW to develop wind farms off the German coast, part of a growing regional energy shift. The German government increased its target for offshore wind energy capacity from 20 gigawatts to 30 GW by 2030, with eyes set on 70 …

Amid a wall of screens in the control room of Equinor ASA’s Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea ticks a tally of the day’s oil production — and a measure of Norway’s growing importance to Europe’s energy security. On Feb. 13, that figure hovered around 720,000 bpd. “By …