Ocean Installer has recently completed the first permanent subsea installation at the Johan Sverdrup field, marking the kick-off of the Johan Sverdrup offshore work - see video below. The offshore campaign took place late January, in line with project plans and schedule…
Norwegian firms Aker Solutions and Aibel have won hook-up and commissioning contracts on Statoil's massive Johan Sverdrup field development offshore Norway. The contracts have a total value of slightly less than NOK 1.3 billion, excluding options…
IKM Testing Thailand has been awarded the service contract by Aibel for the Johan Sverdrup drilling platform. The platform deck for the drilling platform will comprise of three modules. Aibel is to build the largest module, the main support frame (MSF)…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil consent to drill well 16/2-22, an appraisal well, on the Johan Sverdrup field. The consent also applies to a possible sidetrack from this well. The Statoil-operated field, located around 140km west of Stavanger in the North Sea…
The first of two shipments of pile clusters and flotation tanks arrived at Kvaerner’s yard at Verdal earlier this week (4 October), which will be installed on the first and largest steel jacket for the Johan Sverdrup projects, currently under construction at Verdal…
The NorSea Group (NSG) has signed a US$9.8 million (NOK 80 million) contract with Statoil for intermediate storage of the Johan Sverdrup export pipelines. The contract involves receipt of over 36,000 pipe sections, 36in and 18in in diameter…
The start of construction of the riser platform for the giant Johan Sverdrup project offshore Norway has been marked at Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea. Johan Sverdrup, 155km west of Stavanger, Norway, is one of the five biggest oil fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…
In this video, Statoil shows the beginning stages of construction of the utility and living quarters (ULQ) on Johan Sverdrup, offshore Norway. Statoil awarded a joint venture between Kværner and KBR the contract for engineering and…
Construction on the utility and living quarters on Norway's largest industrial project - the Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea - has been marked by an apprentice at engineering firm Kvaerner and the country's minister for petroleum…
Production well drilling has started on Statoil's major Johan Sverdrup development offshore Norway. The first of 35 wells was spudded by Odfjell drilling's Deepsea Atlantic semisubmersible drilling rig. The US$13.3 billion first phase…
Aibel cut the first steel for the DSM module for Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup drilling platform at its Haugesund yard, where a busy period awaits until the platform is completed in 2018. Aibel expects to finish the DSM module come summer 2017…
Aker Solutions will deliver a concept study on a new processing platform for future phases of the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The study includes design solutions for a tie-in of the…
Aibel, along with other companies, is working on a C study for the second phase of Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup development. The study is managed from Aibel's Oslo office. Image from Aibel. Aibel's…
Lundin Petroleum secured up to US$5 billion in a seven-year deal to fund the company’s stake in Statoil’s giant Johan Sverdrup project, offshore Norway. Johan Sverdrup rendering. Image from Lundin Facebook…
Statoil is decreasing cost estimates for the first phase of the giant Johan Sverdrup field by up to 42%, with development costs expected to decrease further, according to partner Det norske. Illustration of the Johan Sverdrup field…
