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    Ekofisk is an oil field in block 2/4 of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea about 320 km (200 mi) southwest of Stavanger. Discovered in 1969 by Phillips...
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  • The Ekofisk Formation is a geological formation of Danian (lowermost Paleocene) age. It forms the uppermost part of the Chalk Group in the North Sea....
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  • the North Sea on December 23, 1969, at a position that was later named Ekofisk. On August 30, 2002, Conoco Inc. merged with Phillips Petroleum to form...
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    crude oil produced from the Forties (added 2002), Oseberg (added 2002), Ekofisk (added 2007), Troll (added 2018) oil fields (also known as the BFOET Quotation)...
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    the Phillips Petroleum Company discovered petroleum resources at the Ekofisk field west of Norway. In 1973, the Norwegian government founded the State...
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    began in 1966 and then, in 1969, Phillips Petroleum Company discovered the Ekofisk oil field distinguished by valuable, low-sulphur oil. Commercial exploitation...
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    worldwide, in terms of volume of crude oil spilled. This took place at the Ekofisk Bravo platform, located in the Norwegian sector and operated by Phillips...
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    semi-submersible drilling rig that, on 27 March 1980, capsized in the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea, killing 123 people. The capsize was the worst...
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  • crude oil delivered by the subsea NORPIPE pipeline from the Norwegian Ekofisk field and the UK Fulmar and J-Block fields. The terminal includes facilities...
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    Norge sikret seg eiendomsretten til Nordsjø-oljen, men holdt på å miste Ekofisk. Og om de statlige oljepionerene som har æren for at Norge er et av verdens...
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  • Norwegian Ekofisk and associated fields in the North Sea to the United Kingdom and natural gas to Germany. The Norpipe oil pipeline starts at the Ekofisk 2/4-J...
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    in Brent crude associated North Sea oilfields (Brent, Forties, Oseberg, Ekofisk, and Troll; also referred to as BFOET), a higher proportion of that oil...
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  • Statpipe lines from Heimdal and Kårstø for onward transmission to the Ekofisk oil field. In April 1985, first gas was transferred through the platform...
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    1969, when Phillips Petroleum discovered oil in Chalk of Danian age at Ekofisk, in Norwegian waters in the central North Sea. The same month, Amoco discovered...
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    oil production. Phillips Petroleum discovered oil in the Chalk Group at Ekofisk, in Norwegian waters in the central North Sea. Discoveries increased exponentially...
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    with the Norwegian Minister Jens Evensen that gave Norway the oil-rich Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea. According to an urban legend, Hækkerup was...
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  • With the discovery of the Ekofisk oil field in the early 1970s in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, the Norwegian government sought to establish...
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    operated by AkerBP Eldfisk - chalk reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips Ekofisk - chalk reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips Embla oil field - Devonian...
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    continental shelf. Following the success of the concrete oil storage tank on the Ekofisk field, Norwegian Contractors introduced the Condeep production platform...
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    (240 km3)) Amethyst gasfield Brent oilfield Dan field Easington Catchment Area Ekofisk oil field, Norway (7×10^12 cu ft (200 km3)) Everest gasfield Frigg gas...
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    North Sea started in 1966 and in 1969 Phillips Petroleum found oil in the Ekofisk field—which proved to be among the ten largest fields in the world. Operations...
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  • System Grane oil field Grane oil pipeline North Sea oil Economy of Norway Ekofisk oil field Erlandsen, S.M. (2000). "Production experience from smart wells...
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  • Transport Commission - Leader Murchison Commission - Leader Ekofisk-Teesside Commission - Leader Ekofisk-Emden Commission - Leader Frigg Commission - Leader Council...
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  • Administration. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2010. "Ekofisk Bravo". Oil Rig Disasters. 14 April 2008. Archived from the original on...
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    Maersk Drilling Jackup Blowout and fire in North Sea[citation needed] 1977 Ekofisk Bravo Phillips Petroleum Platform Blowout during well workover. 1978 Scan...
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    Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig, capsized whilst working in the Ekofisk oil field killing 123 people; six different Nimrods searched for survivors...
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    high and weighs 21,000 tons. The oil production is piped to 2/4-J at the Ekofisk Center and goes to Teesside in England. The gas is transported directly...
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    Nursultan Field Kazakhstan 4.5 Jubilee oil field Ghana 2007 2010 3 0.15 Ekofisk oil field Norway 1969 1971 2006 3.3 0.13 Troll Vest Norway 1979 1990 2003...
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  • Norsk Hydro, Phillips Petroleum and Statoil, serving their oil fields Ekofisk, Oseberg, Gullfaks, Veslefrikk, Valhall, Ula and Gyda. Braathens Helikopter...
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  • The first concrete oil platform was installed in the North Sea in the Ekofisk oil field in 1973 by Phillips Petroleum, and they have become a significant...
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