Norway’s plan to nationalize natural gas assets includes more than just Gassled’s natural gas pipelines, new information revealed in a letter from the Norwegian energy minister showed on Friday. The surprise move to nationalize the country’s gas assets will also include other assets—including the Nyhamna processing plant. Last Friday, Norway’s …
Read More »Europe’s Largest Gas Producer is Set to Nationalize its Gas Pipelines
Norway will nationalize all of its natural gas pipelines within the next five years, the country’s oil and energy ministry said on Friday. The nationalization plan would provide Norway with greater control over its critical infrastructure. Standing in the way of an immediate nationalization are existing concessions, which aren’t due …
Read More »Norwegian Crude becomes Mainstay for EU Refiners as they Ditch Urals
The continuous shift in oil trade flows following the EU embargo on Russian exports is a huge win for the crude from Western Europe’s largest oilfield offshore Norway. Norway’s Johan Sverdrup crude is now a top choice for European refineries that used to rely on Russia’s flagship grade, Urals, before …
Read More »Norwegian Oil & Gas Firm Eyes more Offshore Acreage in North Sea
Norway-based oil and gas company Noreco, to be renamed BlueNord, has set the wheels into motion to participate in a mini-round of licencing in the Danish sector of the North Sea. Noreco revealed on Wednesday, 12 April 2023, that it had submitted a licence application for acreage containing the Elly-Luke …
Read More »Norway Replaces Russian as Europe’s First Gas Supplier
Norway has replaced Russia as the biggest gas supplier of Europe, said the EU Commissioner Kadri Simson, as she was addressing a committee meeting and a press conference in the European Parliament, Trend reports via the European Commission. “Since September 2022, Russian gas is about 8 percent of all pipeline …
Read More »Norway and Germany Team up for Pursuit of Offshore Wind
Norwegian energy company Equinor on Friday said it joined Germany’s EnBW to develop wind farms off the German coast, part of a growing regional energy shift. The German government increased its target for offshore wind energy capacity from 20 gigawatts to 30 GW by 2030, with eyes set on 70 …
Read More »Equinor to Strengthen Europe’s Energy Security by Increasing Oil Production at Norway’s Largest Oil Field
Amid a wall of screens in the control room of Equinor ASA’s Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea ticks a tally of the day’s oil production — and a measure of Norway’s growing importance to Europe’s energy security. On Feb. 13, that figure hovered around 720,000 bpd. “By …
Read More »Equinor all Set to Deploy Transocean Rig at North Sea Field
Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety regulator to use one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs for plugging, drilling and completion activities at a field in the North Sea off Norway. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) revealed on Thursday that it had given Equinor …
Read More »Equinor and Partners Make Gas Discovery in Norwegian Sea
Equinor and its partners have made a commercial gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea, following the drilling of wildcat well 6605/1-2 S and appraisal well 6605/1-2 A. Located approximately 23km south of the Irpa oil field and 350km west of Sandnessjøen, the new discovery, named Obelix Upflank, is estimated to …
Read More »Equinor Makes Norway Gas Discovery
Equinor has made a commercially viable gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea believed to contain between 2 billion and 11 billion cubic metres of recoverable gas, the company said on Wednesday. The find is located 23 kilometres south of the Irpa gas discovery and also close to the Aasta Hansteen …
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