Equinor ideas $2 billion Breidablikk oilfield progress

OSLO (Reuters) – Equinor EQNR.OL and its partners in Norway’s Breidablikk oil discovery have agreed on an 18.6 billion Norwegian crown ($1.95 billion) advancement of the North Sea discovery, the condition-managed enterprise explained on Monday.

The system was the most recent in a string of oil and gasoline investments declared given that June, when the Norwegian parliament released tax breaks for the business in a bid to protect employment threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The Breidablikk discipline is a person of the major undeveloped oil discoveries on the Norwegian continental shelf,” Equinor said in a assertion.

Partners in the area are ConocoPhillips COP.N, Petoro and Vaar Energi, a device of Eni ENI.MI.

The area is estimated to include some 200 million barrels of oil, and is scheduled to start out output in the to start with fifty percent of 2024, Equinor claimed.

Strength minister Tina Bru welcomed the challenge, contacting it critical for the state.

“The Breidablikk enhancement will provide fantastic value development, tax revenues for the local community and sizeable ripple consequences for corporations and nearby communities on the mainland,” she said in a statement.

Deploying distant-management technology designed to slice prices, the discipline will have subsea-installations only, instead than a regular system, taking benefit of its proximity to the older Grane oil system and an intensive pipeline community.

The venture also will come at a time of declining oil output from Grane, Equinor noted.

“This is an important challenge in terms of increasing recovery from the Grane spot, and it is also a great utilisation of present infrastructure,” reported Arvid Oesthus, assistant director at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).

The Breidablikk field is composed of discoveries produced in adjacent licenses, in which the operators have differing stakes, and the last distribution of ownership of the area will consequently be made a decision by the power ministry, Equinor explained.