Geir Sørtveit, senior vice president for Exploration & Production West: “It is positive that we can still make such discoveries in an area with a good oil and gas infrastructure”
“It is positive that we can still make such discoveries in an area with a good oil and gas infrastructure, allowing the discoveries to be developed at low costs and with low CO2 emissions,” says Geir Sørtveit, Equinor’s senior vice president for Exploration & Production West.
The eight previous discoveries in the area are: Echino South, Swisher, Røver North, Blasto, Toppand, Kveikje, Røver South and Heisenberg.
Equinor Energy AS and partners have made a commercial oil and gas discovery in the Troll-Fram area in the northern North Sea. The licensees will consider tie-back to other discoveries and existing infrastructure in the area.
The licence owners
- Equinor Energy AS: 45%
- Vår Energi ASA: 25%
- INPEX Idemitsu Norge AS: 15%
- Neptune Energy Norge AS: 15%
Equinor discovers oil near North Sea Fram field Equinor Energy AS and partners have made a commercial oil and gas discovery in the Troll-Fram area in the northern North Sea. The licensees will consider tie-back to other discoveries and existing infrastructure in the area. Volumes are estimated at 9-35 MMboe, mostly oil.
One exploration well with a sidetrack (35/11-26 S and 35/11-26 A) were drilled in the Crino-Mulder prospect about 4km west of Fram field and 130 km northwest of Bergen.
The well was drilled by the Deepsea Stavanger drilling rig in water depth of 356 m. Extensive data acquisition and sampling has been carried out.
************************************************************************************************20.08.2023 / Andreea Dragan, Deputy-Editor-in-Chief
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