Norwegian energy company Equinor ASA has announced that it will begin exiting its current joint ventures in Russia and give up potential new investments, thus putting an end to its presence of more than 30 years in the country. “We are all deeply troubled by the invasion of Ukraine, which …
Read More »The Year Europe’s Big Oil Companies Start to become Small Oil
Europe’s Big Oil companies are planning to spend their windfall from high energy prices on becoming Small Oil. Surging oil and gas prices in 2021 delivered billions of dollars in profits to top oil companies, in stark contrast to the previous year when energy prices collapsed as the coronavirus pandemic …
Read More »Equinor Makes Oil Discovery near Fram Field in Norwegian North Sea
Equinor and its partner Wellesley have discovered oil in the Troll and Fram area in the Norwegian North Sea, following the drilling of the exploration wells 35/10-7 S and 35/10-7 A. The discovery was made at the Toppand prospect, 8km west of the producing Fram field, in production licence 630 …
Read More »Equinor Finds more Oil in North Sea Troll Region
Equinor has discovered oil in the Toppand prospect in the Troll/Fram area of the Norwegian North Sea. The semisubmersible West Hercules drilled wells 35/10-7 S and 35/10-7 A 8 km (5 mi) west of the Fram field in 354 m (1,161 ft) water depth. Well 35/10-7 S encountered 75-m (246-ft) …
Read More »Equinor Wants the World’s Last Drop of Oil to Come from Norway
Equinor ASA will drill about 25 exploration wells off Norway’s coast next year in a bet that it will be among the last companies still producing oil and gas when the world has achieved net-zero emissions. All scenarios, including the International Energy Agency’s vision of a net-zero world, include the …
Read More »Another EU Country Joining Low-Carbon Hydrogen Production Market
Energy companies Engie and Equinor have announced the H2BE project which aims to develop production of low-carbon hydrogen from natural gas in Belgium. The Belgian federal government released its Hydrogen Strategy in late October and the H2BE project will help Belgium deliver on the strategy. The project aims at producing …
Read More »Equinor Increases Gas Exports to Europe
In the future, Equinor will produce far more gas from the Oseberg and Troll fields. In this way, it will increase supply to the European gas market. In total, the production permits for these fields will increase by one billion cubic meters each from October 1, Equinor wrote in a …
Read More »Equinor Gearing up for North Sea Well Duo
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat and an appraisal well in the North Sea off Norway. The NPD said on Thursday that wells 35/10-7 S and A will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling rig. The drilling programme for wells 35/10-7 …
Read More »Norway’s Equinor Sees Role for Blue Hydrogen Beyond 2050 in Net-Zero CO2 World
Norway’s state-controlled energy company Equinor is confident there is a long-term role for hydrogen produced from fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage, the company’s senior vice president for low-carbon solutions Grete Tveit told S&P Global Platts. The development of “blue” hydrogen from fossil fuels with CCS would pave the …
Read More »Big Oil’s Digital Pivot Marks the Beginning of a New Era for the Industry
The oil and gas industry is embracing new technologies to save time and costs and, most recently, to reduce the carbon footprint of its supply chain as the energy sector is under increased pressure to reward shareholders while helping to fight climate change. Along with artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital …
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