Despite the growing momentum toward renewable energy and the global push for decarbonization, interest in oil and gas exploration on the Norwegian Continental Shelf remains robust. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate reported a steady influx of applications from oil and gas companies looking to secure new exploration licenses, underscoring the region’s continued appeal for fossil fuel […]
Norway-based oil company Wellesley Petroleum AS has announced the Carmen discovery, a significant commercial hydrocarbon discovery in the North Sea, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). The exploration well 35/10-10 S and appraisal sidetrack well 35/10-10 A, operated by Wellesley Petroleum in licence PL1148 (Wellesley 50%, DNO 30%, Equinor 10%, AkerBP 10%) using the […]
Norwegian authorities have approved Equinor and partners’ plans to begin production from the Snorre expansion project in the North Sea. In July 2018, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy approved the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the expansion of the Snorre field for increasing recovery from it by almost 200 million barrels […]
Warka gas discovery : PGNiG Upstream Norway has claimed to have made a large gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea through the drilling of a wildcat well 6507/4-1 on the Warka prospect in license PL1009. According to the company, the exploration well is located in an area where it has been carrying out hydrocarbon exploration […]
Wellesley Petroleum has failed to find any hydrocarbons following the drilling of exploratory well 6204/11-3 in production licence 829 (PL 829) in the Norwegian North Sea. The wild cat well was spudded by the PL 829 operator nearly 75 kilometres north of the Gjøa field and 60 kilometres northwest of the Norwegian town of Florø. […]
Neptune Energy has been granted a drilling permit from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) for drilling well 6406/12-G-1 H in production licence 586 (PL 586) in the Norwegian Sea. The wildcat well will be drilled by using the West Phoenix drilling facility once it wraps up the drilling of observation well 6406/12-H-4 for Neptune Energy […]
Spirit Energy Norway has failed to find any hydrocarbons in production licence 780 (PL 780), 5km north of the Ivar Aasen field in the Norwegian North Sea, following the drilling of wildcat well 16/1-33 S. The operator of the PL 780 licence drilled the wildcat well 16/1-33 S with the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility in […]
Equinor Energy has made a minor oil discovery in production licence 089 (PL 089) through the drilling of the 34/7-E-4 AH wildcat well near the Vigdis field in the Norwegian North Sea. The goal of the 34/7-E-4 AH exploratory well was to determine the presence of hydrocarbons in reservoir rocks from the Middle Jurassic Age […]
Equinor Energy, the operator of production licence 827 S in the Norwegian North Sea, has failed to find any hydrocarbons following the drilling of wildcat well 35/10-6. The wildcat well was drilled nearly 20 kilometres northwest of the Fram field in the northern region of the North Sea, and nearly 145 kilometres northwest of Bergen. […]
Oil and gas giants Equinor, Shell, and Total have reported positive results from the drilling of an exploration well 31/5-7 Eos located south of the Troll field in the North Sea as part of the Northern Lights CCS project. The drilling of the wildcat well 31/5-7 is to study if the reservoir in the Johansen […]