Business Information Nidaros AS is offshore exploration and development company with more than 20 years of history. Our main interests are crude oil and natural gas:
Exploration Drilling wells Rig support and maintenance Project management Tools development
World coverage Nidaros AS expertise extends to every region of the world - from the cold Arctic waters to warm climate of Gulf of Mexico, from the jungles of Papua New Guinea to the mountains of Kavkaz, seas and deserts in between.
New Coordination Center - April 9, 2011
Our company is proud to report opening of a new Nidaros coordination center based in Trondheim, Norway. With the help of our IT support partner - InterSelect Solutions Ltd - we equipped this center with the last word in technology.
- 6 Servers
- 40 Workstations
- Self Defending Corporate Network
- Information Processing System
- Document Management System
- Access Control System
- Voice Over IP Telephone System
- Remote Site Support System
- Training Center
New center is designed to become a home for our engineers, human resources personnel, technical support team, logistics department, and top management executives. All Nidaros employees around the globe from now on will be able to communicate with our coordination center and each other via secure WAN connection as well as VoIP system. This will not only reduce phone bills cost, but also bring corporate security to the highest level. Nidaros will continue to develop new IT solutions for its facilities all over the world and currently is supervising installation of new servers for our oil platforms and connecting them to the global corporate network with the specialists from our prime IT contractor, InterSelect Solutions.
Offshore Exploration License - March 03, 2011
Nidaros has been awarded one additional offshore exploration license in Norway. The new license PL 672 is located in the Barents Sea, and will be operated by Nidaros (Norge) AS in a Joint Venture with Ledex Petroleum AS. The license was awarded by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in the course of the APA (Awards in Predefined Areas) 2008 round. Nidaros now has interests in ten licenses in Norway. Garry Banks, Nidaros vice president of development, stated: “With our new exploration license we are well on track to build a position as an exploration operator in Norway. Recent investments, high quality standards and a strong commitment to the region have proven that Nidaros is one of the most sustainable companies in the business, operating with a clear strategy for further developments”.
A total of seven licenses have been awarded to Nidaros over the last two years through licensing rounds and farm-ins. The newly awarded license PL 672 in the Barents Sea will be operated by Nidaros (70%) with Ledex Petroleum AS (30%) as partner. As part of the work program, the joint venture will acquire 3D seismic over the license area. Nidaros now operates two licenses in the Barents Sea, one of the prime growth regions on the Northwest European Continental Shelf. The Barents Sea offers a challenging operating environment, which requires the use of leading edge technology through the whole upstream lifecycle.
Alaska's North Slope resources - February 18, 2011
According to Alaska Journal of Commerce, studies by USGS geologists indicate a potential resource of 500 trillion cubic feet of in-place methane in hydrates believed to exist across Alaska's North Slope. From 44 trillion to 100 trillion cubic feet of this could exist right at industry's doorstep, below or near the existing oil field infrastructure on the slope, the agency says. The question is whether methane can actually be produced from a hydrate, and the North Slope will provide a good test bed to find out, the DOE believes.
The agency has enlisted two producing companies, BP and ConocoPhillips, to try out two separate production ideas. The North Slope Borough is engaged in a separate project with DOE to assess whether hydrates are replenishing gas reserves in two small gas fields the borough operates near Barrow, 180 miles west of the North Slope fields. The borough will also drill a production test well in the East Barrow gas field. Methane hydrates exist under certain pressure and temperature conditions, and they are known to exist offshore in buried sediments along continental shelves in several regions of the world. Conditions are also ripe for onshore methane hydrates in Arctic regions, where there are underground geologic formations that contain hydrocarbons. This includes much of the North Slope and many parts of northern Canada and Russia.
Onshore hydrates appear to be formed by the migration of methane upward from the deeply buried source rocks into hydrates that form to trap the methane just below the permafrost, at depths of 2,000 feet to 4,000 feet. The onshore hydrates, at least on the North Slope, also appear to be in thicker layers and more concentrated than offshore hydrates, and could therefore be easier to find and possibly produce, says Gordon Pospisil, technology and project manager of BP's Alaska hydrate program. Being one of the leading exploration companies in this region, Nidaros AS has great interest in developing crude oil and natural gas production in this region. Our company welcomes USGS geologists' research efforts and hopes that their success will encourage other scientists to join hydrates research activities.
