Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

03/31/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/31/2023 00:03

Four companies offered acreage for CO2 storage

31/03/2023 Today, four companies have been offered exploration licences for CO2 storage in two areas in the North Sea. The companies are Aker BP, OMV Norway, Wintershall Dea Norway og Stella Maris CCS.

The authorities have reviewed applications from six companies following announcement of suitable acreage in November 2022.

This is the fourth time acreage is being awarded for CO2 storage pursuant to the CO2 Storage Regulations*. These are the fifth and sixth acreages awarded for CO2 storage on the Norwegian continental shelf.

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Press release from the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy

*Regulation No. 1517 of 5 December 2014 relating to exploitation of subsea reservoirs on the continental shelf for storage of CO2 and relating to transportation of CO2 on the continental shelf (the Storage Regulations).

Updated: 31/03/2023

Four companies offered acreage for CO2 storage

31/03/2023 Today, four companies have been offered exploration licences for CO2 storage in two areas in the North Sea. The companies are Aker BP, OMV Norway, Wintershall Dea Norway og Stella Maris CCS.

Production figures February 2023

21/03/2023 Preliminary production figures for February 2023 show an average daily production of 1 994 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.

New Diskos data type: multi-gigapixel palynology slides

13/03/2023 The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate's digitalisation project Avatara-p has produced over thirty thousand digital palynological slides from 284 released wells. This expanding dataset of 57 terabytes is now available in Diskos.

Drilling permit for well 6406/5-2 S

13/03/2023 The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor Energy AS drilling permit for well 6406/5-2 S, cf. Section 13 of the Resource Management Regulations.

Five companies have applied for CO2 storage acreage

06/03/2023 The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) has received applications from five companies in connection with the announcement of an area in the North Sea for potential storage of CO2 on the Norwegian shelf.