Vår Energi has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate to drill in the North Sea. Vår Energi ASA has been ...

OMV has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore ... in the North Sea. Oil and gas exploration well 35/6-6 will be drilled by the Transocean Norge semisubmersible drilling rig in production ...

Since the first jackup was built in 1954, jackups have become the most popular type of mobile offshore drilling unit ... popular submersible rig), jackup rigs rest on the sea floor rather than ...

For example, hunting waves 1.5 miles out to sea off an oil rig ... Related: Surfers Score Offshore Oil Rig in California During Historic Huge Swell (VIDEO) It's also, on occasion, a novelty ...

Norwegian oil and gas firm Aker BP and its partners have drilled a dry well in the North Sea, offshore Norway.The drilling ...

The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 when 167 men died. Oil production has slowed in the past decade but new discoveries are still being made in the North Sea.