
Norwegian Government approves funding for Northern Lights CCS project
The Norwegian government has approved funding for the CO2 transport and storage project being developed by Equinor, Shell and Total.
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The Norwegian government has approved funding for the CO2 transport and storage project being developed by Equinor, Shell and Total.

The operations and maintenance contract will cover all in-country installation and commissioning activities.

ExxonMobil plans to reduce the intensity of operated upstream greenhouse gas emissions by 15 to 20% by 2025, compared to 2016 levels.

Two of Neodrill's CAN-ductors were installed in April on two of Neptune Energy’s exploration wells in the Norwegian North Sea.

An independent, cloud-based ecosystem will offer a single search point to access all three companies’ subsurface multi-client data.

The project will add almost 200 million bbl of recoverable oil reserves and help extend the productive life of the Snorre field through to 2040.

The company presented a paper on ‘Innovative Asset Integrity Management to Drive Operational Effectiveness’.

Unless an effective COVID-19 vaccine is made available, the uncertainty in global energy demand will continue to weigh down oil prices, and delay shale industry recovery.

The new large bore trailer configuration reduces the number of connections from four lines to one, allowing for simple maintenance and lowers the risk of flow cross failures.

Offshore decommissioning work has inevitably nosedived during 2020, though there are encouraging signs of activity recovering into next year. Christian Berven, Aquaterra Energy, offers his take on where the market may be heading – and how a change of mindset among operators is influencing a new strategic approach.

The equipment will be located onboard a converted FPSO vessel that MODEC is constructing on behalf of Woodside Energy for the Sangomar oilfield offshore Senegal.

The drilling programme for well 2/9-6 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 617, about 31 km east of the Valhall field.