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New Rosebank drilling begins Drilling kicked off on the first of several new West of Shetlands exploration wells which could herald the beginnings of a major new development in the region.

Norway?s petroleum industry faces increasing challenges as the lifetime of an increasing number of facilities on the Norwegian Shelf is extended.

A report by Norwegian researchers SINTEF has revealed that a lack of knowledge, standards and procedures is the greatest hindrance to extending the life of oil platforms in the North Sea, where facilities have defied waves and salt for decades.

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Intsok's 6th Annual US/Norway Subsea Umbilical Riser & Flowline (SURF) workshop held on Oct. 30th, 2008 was a smashing success in terms of both turnout and speaker line-up.

What if everyone was disabled? Could we fail to achieve what a human being is destined to achieve? These are the questions that everyone should reflect on at a time when the disabled continue facing all kinds of discrimination.

SINTEF's Karl Anders Hoff feels that he is privileged to be able to work in such a central aspect of the debate over the environment and society.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2008) ? If you are over seventy years old, your chances of dying in a fire at home are four times as high as they are for the rest of the population. It is also a fact that half of all women who die in house fires are 70 or older...

ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2008) ? The diamond-shape island state of Singapore is more or less the same size as the Danish island of Bornholm. It takes about an hour to drive from the east to the west of the little island on which the city lies.

Uchenna Izundu International Editor LONDON, Nov.

The Statfjord oil spill in December last year did not cause any demonstrable environmental harm, according to the environmental report on the spill.

staff STAVANGER, Norway -- SINTEF Petroleum Research and Hitec Products Drilling are setting up a new company that aims to improve the efficiency of drilling and well operations, the companies say.

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- StatoilHydro said Wednesday that the Statfjord oil spill in Dec. last year did not cause any demonstrable environmental harm, according to the environmental report on the spill.

Identifiant : Mot de passe : ( Mot de passe oublié ) BOURBON inaugurates today the BOURBON Training Center Asia and its AHTS simulator in Singapore in the premises of Bourbon Offshore Asia.

Web users wish to spread information from public sources through internet communities. However, there is a risk that the government is slowing down this process, according to the report eCitizen 2.

The Norwegian town of Kirkenes - where you find street signs in both Norwegian and Russian - is the closest harbour to the Shtokman gas field in the Barents Sea. Shtokman is a Russian field, and the Russians are intent on proceeding on their own terms.