Norway News

 

Equinor's Troll Gas Field Outage Extends to end of May

May 27, 2025

Equinor has extended a partial outage at Norway's Troll natural gas field until May 31 due to a compressor failure, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday, pushing European gas prices higher.Norway in 2022 overtook Russia as Europe's biggest supplier of natural gas when Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine upended decades-long energy ties.Troll, Europe's biggest natural gas field, has seen outages of various scope since May 21 when an annual one-day stop-start test was performed…

Equinor’s Activity in Norway Major Driver of Supplier Services Across Country

Apr 04, 2025

A new report has found that deliveries within exploration, development projects and operation of Equinor-operated fields and onshore facilities in Norway continued to grow in 2024.Equinor procured goods and services with a total value of $13…

Norway Puts One North Sea Area Up for CO2 Storage Bids

Mar 05, 2025

Norwegian Ministry of Energy has opened applications for exploration licenses related to CO2 storage in one designated area in the North Sea.Announcement and possible allocation of area for a storage permit will take place after individual application…

Norway Offers 53 New Production Licenses

Jan 14, 2025

The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has offered 53 new production licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf.Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) is an annual exploration round for the Norwegian continental shelf.  Of the 53 production licenses offered in APA 2024…

Driven by Oil & Gas, Norway Wealth Fund Approachs $2 Trillion

Dec 06, 2024

The value of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, rose to a record 20 trillion crowns ($1.8 trillion) on Friday, doubling its value in just five years as oil and gas revenue flowed in and stock markets rose.Built since 1996 as rainy-day savings…

Norway Eyes Increased Oil and Gas Exploration Through 2050

Aug 21, 2024

According to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate's projected scenarios leading up to 2050, the difference between high and low production of oil and gas can amount to nearly an entire government pension fund.Norway still has extensive oil and gas resources on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS)…

First Oil from Norway's Balder X Delayed ... Again

Aug 21, 2024

Norway's Vaar Energi has again postponed the startup of its North Sea Balder X oil and gas project, planning to begin output in the second quarter of 2025 rather than by the end of this year, the company said on Wednesday.Plagued by cost overruns and delays…

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