The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has approved a project to connect the Troll B production platform on Norway’s side of the North Sea to the Kvitebjorn gas export pipeline.
Energy Minister Terje Aasland commented, “Norway will remain a long-term supplier of oil and gas to Europe, while the Norwegian continental shelf will continue to create values and jobs for our country. To deliver on this commitment, we must make more discoveries – and to make more discoveries, we must explore”.
Rex International Holding Ltd. reported that oil and gas production from its assets in Norway, Oman and Germany averaged 12,230 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) in August 2025, supported by output from the Brage and Yme fields in Norway, the Yumna field offshore Oman, and the Schwarzbach and Lauben fields in Germany.
The framework agreement begins in August 2025 and runs until July 2027, with four optional one-year extensions. The scope includes planning, advisory and execution services across insulation, coatings, passive fire protection, structural access and software-driven performance enhancement.
Clariant Oil Services has expanded its commitment to Norwegian oil and gas customers with a new bulk storage and transfer base located in Dusavik, Norway together with its long-standing strategic partner Swire Energy Services. The new site consists of multiple bulk storage tanks with transfer capability to supply either directly to vessels or tote tanks. The system is fully automated to ensure chemicals are transferred accurately and efficiently, and full operations are expected in September 2025.
The system will include four subsea templates and 12 all-electric trees, which will reduce topside modifications and eliminate the need for hydraulic fluid from the host platform. The Fram Sør project will be tied back to the Troll C platform in the North Sea and is designed to have very low emissions due to shore-based power supply.
Exploration well 35/11-31 S in production licence 090 encountered petroleum in two reservoirs, one containing oil and gas and the other gas only. Estimated resources range from 0.1 million to 1.1 million standard cubic metres.
OKEA ASA has announced oil discoveries made in the Cook and Statfjord formations of Norway’s Brage Field. The discoveries are considered commercial with preliminary estimates of gross recoverable resources in the range of 16 to 33 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) combined.
Ace Well Technology, in collaboration with Expro and Archer, has successfully completed the first well deployment of the Ace Control Line Clamp (ACLC) using Expro’s Remote Clamp Installation System (RCIS) on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). This marks a significant milestone in the drive toward safer and more efficient well completion operations, by fully removing personnel from the red zone.
Norwegian oil and gas producers are spending billions to squeeze output from the country’s mature continental shelf. While exports have dropped from what they were in the early 2000s, July crude loadings from the country were forecast to reached the most since at least 2012, according to consultant FGE NexantECA.