Norway's August Gas Output Up on July
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said September 18 that the country's August sales gas production was above July’s level.
Total gas sales for August 2018 were 10.2bn m³, down 0.4bn m³ on July, which meant daily output for each month was 329.5mn m3/d; as usual, nearly all went for exported. Actual gas sales for August were slightly above the forecast level for that month of 323.4mn m3/d, but down on August 2017’s actual level of 336.1mn m3/d.
Oil, NGL and condensate production in August 2018 was 1.87mn b/d, down 42,000 b/d from July.
Meanwhile NPD as offshore regulator said September 18 it had granted Equinor a drilling permit for well 7324/3-1, to be drilled from the West Hercules drillrig in the Barents Sea licence PL615. Operator Equinor’s interest is 55%, while Austrian OMV has 25% and state Petoro 20%. It will be the third on that licence and will test the Intrepid Eagle prospect. The well will be drilled 13 km west of the Atlantis gas discovery and 30km northwest of the Gemini Nord oil and gas find. (Equinor said Sept.19 it had awarded Seadrill a contract to drill two exploration wells in the Barents Sea using West Hercules, starting spring 2019, with options for nine additional wells)
Elsewhere Petrobras awarded Norway’s Aker Solutions a contract worth over 250mn reais ($60mn) to provide maintenance and modifications services for nine platforms at oil and gas fields in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The work starts in October 2018, with final deliveries scheduled for 2021, and there is an option for a two-year extension, said Aker September 18; it will book the contract in 3Q2018.
Norwegian sales gas production, August 2018
Credit: NPD