Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement worth around USD 1.2 million for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS's multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. In addition, the ...
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BP Norway has extended the contract for the jack-up Maersk Reacher by two years from September 2014 to September 2016.BP Norway holds options to further extend the contract by up to additional four years until September 2020.The estimated ...
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Dietary supplements may upset the balance in the body's cells and therefore cause more harm than good, according to new research from Norway. The study, which is being conducted by a research group at the Biotechnology Centre at the ...
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Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, is pleased to announce the spudding of the Centrica operated ...
France is going to test an artificial heart on patients. The heart will contain a Norwegian pressure sensor. The French company Carmat will now proceed with full-scale testing on patients. It could save the lives of people who have been ...
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An international team of scientists led by National Institutes of Health researchers has traced the likely origin of the enzyme needed to manufacture the hormone melatonin to roughly 500 million years ago. Their work indicates that this ...
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PARIS, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Almost 14 percent of Australians take statins -- cholesterol-lowering medications -- while 13 percent of Britons and Slovakians take statins, researchers says. Britain, the "statins capital" of Europe, prescribes ...
Exploration well 31/3-4 on the Mantra prospect offshore Norway has encountered reservoir quality sands but all intervals were water wet. Det norske is partner in the 551 license with a 20 percent interest. The 31/3-4 wildcat was the first ...
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/3-8 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/3-8 S will be drilled from the Bredford Dolphin drilling facility at ...
London’s festive season once again kicked off in sustainable style with the lighting of the iconic Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree on 6th December. The traditional annual gift from Norway to the UK will be the 67th in the series of ...
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Simply imagining scenes such as a sunny day or a night sky can cause your pupils to change size, a new study finds. Pupils automatically dilate (get bigger) or contract (get smaller) in response to the amount of light entering the eye. ...
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Statoil, along with partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil, has been awarded block 6 in the East Greenland licence round. Statoil will be operator of the block. Block 6 is located offshore north-east Greenland in a frontier area. Statoil ...
Statoil and partners have awarded Aker Solutions the engineering framework agreement for the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea, where the first call off will be the front-end engineering design (FEED) of the field centre. The Johan ...
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Lundin Petroleum AB, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), has completed the drilling of appraisal well 16/5-5 in PL410. The well targeted a possible southern extension of the Luno II discovery. The main ...
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Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 410, has completed drilling of wildcat well 16/5-5. The well was dry. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres south of the Edvard Grieg field in the central part of the North Sea. The ...