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Ormen Lange license Postpones offshore compression
The Ormen Lange Licence has Decided to Postpone the Offshore Compression Project for Ormen Lange, and stop the Ongoing Concept select work.

Gas and oil discovery in the Valemon area
Operator Statoil has together with the Valemon Unit partners made a gas and oil discovery in the Valemon Nord prospect in the North Sea.

Gudrun on stream
At 07.25 on 7 April, Statoil and its partners (GDF SUEZ and OMV) started production on the Gudrun oil and gas field in the North Sea.

More success in Espírito Santo in Brazil
Statoil has received formal approval to enter the São Bernardo discovery in Espírito Santo. The discovery further strengthens Statoil's belief in the oil potential in the basin.
On 19th March, Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP) approved Statoil’s acquisition of Vale SA’s 25% equity in the BM-ES-22A concession in the Espírito Santo basin offshore Brazil.

Statoil awarded exploration acreage offshore Myanmar
Together with partner ConocoPhillips, Statoil has been awarded a deep-water exploration block in the Myanmar waters of Bay of Bengal.
Block AD-10 cover more than 9,000 square kilometres, and is located 200 km from the coast in water depths of approximately 2,000 metres. The license has been awarded to Statoil and ConocoPhillips, each with a 50% equity share and with Statoil as the operator.

ABB wins $60 million telecom contracts for Statoil platforms
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won three orders worth $60 million for internal and external telecommunication systems for three Statoil projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The orders were booked in the fourth quarter of 2013 and in the first quarter of 2014.
The three contracts are signed with leading shipyards in South Korea. ABB will be a system integrator of telecommunications on the offshore installations built for the Aasta Hansteen and Gina Krog fields in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and for the Mariner field in the British sector. ABB has more than 30 years of experience in telecommunication deliveries to the global oil and gas industry and will complete these system deliveries by 2015.

Statoil’s Zafarani reservoir in Tanzania Block 2 successfully tested
Statoil and co-venturer ExxonMobil today announce the results from their first drill stem test in the Tanzania Block 2 offshore discoveries.
The data acquired is important to reduce technical uncertainties in a possible future Tanzania offshore and LNG development.

Concept selection for the Johan Sverdrup field
Statoil and the partners in the Johan Sverdrup field have decided on a concept for the first development phase. The partners have agreed on a field centre consisting of four installations and power from shore.

Technip awarded contract for intervention services on Asgard Subsea Compression Stations
Technip was awarded by Statoil a substantial(1) contract for future intervention services on the Asgard Subsea Compression Stations. The award is a call-off of options under the Asgard Subsea Compression Marine Operations contract. Ranking among the largest developments on the Norwegian continental shelf, the Asgard field lies on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea, about 200 kilometers off Norway. The Asgard subsea compression facility is the world’s first project of its kind.

KANFA Group has secured another Aasta Hansteen contract
On the 5th of November 2013, KANFA Group signed a Letter of Agreement with FMC Technologies contracted by Hyundai Heavy Industry Co. for the delivery of a new Produced Water and Sand Treatment Package for the Aasta Hansteen SPAR platform to be operated in the Norwegian Sea by Statoil.