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Det Norske awarded licences in Norway
The results for the awards in predefined areas (APA) 2010 are now published by the government. 50 production licenses are offered to 39 companies. 22 companies are offered operatorships. In all, 41 companies applyed for production licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Maersk Oil awarded licence in Norway
Maersk Oil announces it has been awarded a licence in the Norwegian North Sea as a result of the latest APA Licensing Round.

New exploration acreage for Statoil
Statoil has been awarded interests in 11 production licences on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) yesterday, 18 January. Statoil is operator for eight of these licences.
“We’re very pleased with this year’s awards,” says Gro Gunleiksrud Haatvedt, Statoil’s senior vice president for exploration on the NCS.

Statoil, Modifications worth NOK 9 billion
Statoil has planned 990 modification projects on the Norwegian continental shelf in 2011, with a price tag totalling NOK 9 billion. The modifications will improve health, safety and the environment (HSE) – as well as earnings from the installations.

Total: new gas and condensate discovery in the West of Shetland
Total announces that its affiliate Total E&P UK has made a new gas and condensate discovery in the West of Shetland on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf, close to the currently under development Laggan and Tormore fields.

Halliburton Wins Contract for Jasmine
Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) has been awarded a contract by ConocoPhillips for directional drilling, logging-while-drilling (LWD) and surface data logging (SDL) services to help develop the high temperature Jasmine discovery in the central North Sea. Halliburton is an industry leader in technologies developed for ultra high temperature and high pressure (HP/HT) environments.

DONG Energy invests in further development of South Arne field
DONG Energy has decided - together with the operator Hess and the licence partners - to develop the Danish North Sea field South Arne. DONG Energy's share of the investment amounts to about DKK 2.5 billion.

Apache Selects OGN Group for North Sea Platform Construction
Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) today announced that it has selected OGN Group, a United Kingdom-based oil and gas engineering and fabrication contractor, to build a new satellite oil production platform for the UK Forties field. The new platform will be bridge-linked to the existing Forties Alpha installation in the Apache-operated field, located on the UK continental shelf.

AMEC awarded Forties contract by Apache North Sea Limited
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been selected by Apache North Sea Limited to undertake project management, engineering and procurement for the design and implementation of brownfield modifications to the Forties Alpha platform.

BP Suspends Production from Rhum Gas Field
BP confirmed today that, pending clarification from the UK Government on certain aspects of the new EU Regulations concerning restrictive measures against Iran, production from the Rhum gas field in the central North Sea has been suspended. This action has been taken in order to comply with the notification requirements in the Regulations.