Development and Production

Equinor to develop field in Siberia

“This is an important milestone in the joint project that we have been working on for seven years,” says Elisabeth Birkeland Kvalheim, Country manager for Equinor in Russia. The North Komsomolskoye…

Adding 136 million barrels

It is estimated that the remaining reserves in the area increase by 136 million barrels of oil. The field was proven in 1967, and the original PDO was approved in…

Found a 2.5 m oil column

OKEA has completed drilling of the reservoir section of the Infill Ø well (6407/9-11) in the Draugen Field. The well targeted a possible unswept oil accumulation in the producing reservoir…

Lessons to be learned

“The Maria field in the Norwegian Sea has underperformed”, reports Joe Killen, analyst with Westwood Global Energy. It came onstream a year ahead of schedule but has experienced a 71%…

Neptune goes ahead with Seagull

Neptune Energy announced that Neptune and its joint venture partners BP and Japex have agreed on the final investment decision for the Seagull oil project. Seagull is a high pressure,…

334MMbo offshore Ghana

The main Pecan field, located in ultra-deep waters ranging from 2,400 to 2,700 metres about 115 kilometres offshore Ghana, will be developed with a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO)…

Maria still shut-in

In an interview with Sysla, Mario Mehren CEO Wintershall, confesses that he is disappointed how the Maria field has performed so far and that there is uncertainty when it will…

PDO for Luno II

The Solveig oil discovery in PL359, is located 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field and will be developed via a subsea tie-back to the Edvard Grieg platform, involving…

Oda on stream

Spirit Energy, operator of the Oda field has announced that it started producing from the Oda field almost 5 months earlier than planned and under budget with a 15% reduction…

The world’s cleanest production

At the annual conference of the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association on the 14th of March, Equinor presented a study from Stanford University which shows that the world’s CO2 emission…