In March Equinor ASA said it has put onstream the Halten East field in the Norwegian Sea, increasing Norway’s capacity to export gas to Europe. Halten East, a tie-in to be developed in two phases, holds about 100 million barrels of oil equivalent recoverable reserves, according to the Norwegian majority state-owned energy company.
Subsea7 has been awarded a front-end engineering and design contract by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia for the Previously Produced Fields development project offshore Norway, Subsea7 said on Monday.
The new reserve was located at the Goktepe-3 well, situated 69 kilometres west of the Sakarya gasfield and 165 kilometres offshore, following 49 days of drilling by the high-tech vessel Abdulhamid Han. The well lies at a depth of 3,500 metres, and exploration began on March 27. The discovery, officially announced on May 16, is expected to meet the country’s residential natural gas demand for three and a half years.
Norway is currently Europe’s largest single supplier of natural gas and also the largest producer of oil in the West. The country, which also sports some of the highest low-carbon generation capacity thanks to its abundant water resources, plans to maintain this status by investing more in both oil and gas despite net-zero plans.
TechnipFMC has been awarded a large(1) integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (iEPCI™) contract by Equinor for the Johan Sverdrup Phase 3 development in the Norwegian North Sea.
The Johan Sverdrup field, which originally began production in 2019, is now one of the largest developments in the region. This latest phase will increase production by tying in additional wells to the current infrastructure, which is powered by low-emission resources onshore.
Norway produced 355.1 million standard cubic meters a day (MMscmd) of natural gas in February, beating the official forecast by 3.8 percent and rising from January’s 346.1 Mmscmd, the country’s upstream regulator has reported.
However, last month’s gas output is lower than the 360.4 MMscmd logged for February 2024, according to figures published online by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.
The Nordic country, the European Union’s biggest source of pipeline gas, sold 9.9 billion standard cubic meters (Bscm) February 2025, down 800 MMscm from January 2025.
Equinor and partners Okea and Pandion Energy have discovered gas and condensate in the Mistral Sør exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, Equinor said on Wednesday.
Estimated resource volumes on the Norwegian continental shelf rose 36 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent (scmoe) to 15.61 billion scmoe – before accounting for production – as of year-end 2024, Norway’s upstream regulator has reported.
Reelwell AS, has secured a multi-year contract with Vår Energi ASA for the provision of its disruptive DualLink powered digital drill pipe technology. This is a milestone contract for Reelwell and Odfjell Technology, which will see the DualLink deployed offshore on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) for the first time.
The contract will deliver a carbon capture plant, a liquefaction system, temporary storage, and loading facility at the waste incineration site. It also includes an intermediate CO2 storage and ship loading system at Oslo harbor.
TGS has been awarded four 4D streamer contract acquisition projects, three in the North Sea and one in the Barents Sea, the company announced.