Equinor NEWS

A small fire has reportedly been extinquished quickly on board Equinor's Gina Krog production platform in the Norwegian North Sea. There were no injuries reported from the fire on Wednesday morning, but production has been shut down, according to Upstream's sister publication DN, which quoted a Norwegian police report.

Seatrium Limited, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp Marine Offshore Platforms Pte. Ltd. (“SMOP”), has secured a contract worth more than S$500 million for two offshore wind farm substations from Empire Offshore Wind LLC, a joint venture between Equinor and bp.

Analysts point to an impressive performance in a quarter where profit is falling back from record levels seen in 2022. Norwegian energy giant Equinor has posted stronger than expected first quarter results at a time it is playing a key role in European energy security.

Equinor said on Friday it will acquire the British oil and gas business of Canada’s Suncor Energy for $850 million, giving the Norwegian company stakes in several key North Sea petroleum assets.

Equinor and its partners in the Troll and Oseberg oil and gas fields in the North Sea are looking into possible options for building a one-gigawatt floating offshore wind farm, the Norwegian energy firm said on Friday. The project, named Trollvind, could provide much of the electricity needed to run the Troll and Oseberg fields through an onshore connection point, Equinor said. "Power from Trollvind could make a solid contribution towards electrification of of oil and gas installations, accelerate offshore wind development in Norway, and deliver extra power to the Bergen region," it said in a statement.

Equinor and its partners in the Troll and Oseberg oil and gas fields in the North Sea are looking into possible options for building a one-gigawatt floating offshore wind farm, the Norwegian energy firm said on Friday. The project, named Trollvind, could provide much of the electricity needed to run the Troll and Oseberg fields through an onshore connection point, Equinor said. "Power from Trollvind could make a solid contribution towards electrification of of oil and gas installations, accelerate offshore wind development in Norway, and deliver extra power to the Bergen region," it said in a statement.

Equinor and its partners in the Troll and Oseberg oil and gas fields in the North Sea are looking into possible options for building a one-gigawatt floating offshore wind farm, the Norwegian energy firm said on Friday. The project, named Trollvind, could provide much of the electricity needed to run the Troll and Oseberg fields through an onshore connection point, Equinor said. "Power from Trollvind could make a solid contribution towards electrification of of oil and gas installations, accelerate offshore wind development in Norway, and deliver extra power to the Bergen region," it said in a statement.

Equinor has partnered with Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach to examine cooperation in global oil and gas exploration and production. Equinor, together with BP and Sonatrach, is involved in the development and production of two gas fields in the country, In Salah and In Amenas. The In Salah dry gas project, which delivered the first gas in August 2004, involves seven gas fields in the central Sahara area. Claimed to be the fourth-largest gas development project in Algeria, the In Amenas gas project was commissioned in 2006. It is located about 1,200km from the coast, towards the Libyan border.

Renewable energy will account for a far larger share of global supply in 2050 than major oil companies or the International Energy Agency (IEA) expect, Oslo-based consultancy Rystad Energy said on Thursday. Its updated models show renewables meeting 74 per cent of total energy demand by 2050, compared to 43 per cent, 45 per cent and 69 per cent in the most aggressive scenarios from energy firms Equinor, Shell and BP.

Poland’s Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) has announced that Equinor and Polener-gia’s Baltyk II and Baltyk III projects were awarded contracts for difference (CfD) under the first phase of Poland’s offshore wind development scheme. The projects, with a com-bined potential capacity of 1440 MW, are among the first to secure offshore wind awards in Poland.

Aker Solutions has secured a letter of intent from Equinor for the topside work on the Troll B and C platforms offshore Norway to reduce the CO2 emissions. Modifications include installation of equipment for receiving electrical power from shore via cable. This will replace power generation from gas turbines at the platforms, and thus reduce climate footprint. Scheduled for completion at the end of 2025.

Transaction covers all of Equinor’s operated and non-operated acreage, totaling 242,000 net acres, and associated midstream assets in the Bakken. “Equinor is optimizing its oil and gas portfolio to strengthen profitability and make it more robust for the future,” says Anders Opedal, president and chief executive officer of Equinor. The effective date of the transaction is 1 January 2021. Closing is subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions, including authority approvals.

The leading representative body for UK oil and gas has today announced appointment of a new co-chair to its board, Arne Gürtner, Senior Vice President UK & Ireland Offshore at Equinor, as the sector focuses on industry’s recovery whilst meeting net-zero targets for 2021. Arne leads organisation supporting Equinor’s UK and Ireland upstream activities, which includes Mariner development and Rosebank.

Equinor has decided to write down book value of its Tanzania LNG project (TLNG) on company’s balance sheet by 982million USD. Equinor is operator with 65% participating interest, along with ExxonMobil’s working interest of 35%. TPDC has the right to participate with 10% interest. Equinor made nine gas discoveries in Block2 offshore Tanzania with estimated volumes of 20Tcf of GIP.

Equinor expects the global oil demand to peak 2 years prior to what it has stated earlier i.e 2030 as a repercussion of the COVID-19 pandemic. Equinor is forecasting that by around 2025 the oil demand will be returning to the pre-pandemic level of 100 million bpd and will fall to 88 million bpd in 2050 as far as the current scenarios are concerned.

Equinor has claimed a “world-first” with the use of a drone to deliver lifeboat system parts offshore. A drone flew from the Mongstad base to the Troll A platform in the North Sea. The flight spanning around 80 kilometers to the Troll field took about one hour, at an altitude of approx. 5000 feet. The flight was a test, the world’s first of its kind.

Equinor is set to cut jobs significantly in the United States, Canada and Britain to compensate to a fall in oil prices They plan to cut employee numbers in those countries by about 20% and contractor numbers by around half. Equinor will also not drill any new unconventional wells this year in the United States, where it has claims in the Bakken and Marcellus shale formations.

Equinor has appointed Anders Opedal as its new Chief Executive as the Norwegian oil and gas group looks to speed up a move into renewable energy. The new CEO, who had been Equinor’s head of technology, projects and drilling and is the first engineer to lead the company, replaces Eldar Saetre who will retire after more than 40 years at Norway’s biggest company. Opedal’s appointment is effective from Nov. 2.