Aker BP开发的10.7亿桶石油当量的北海项目获得批准

据钻机地带6月8日报道，Aker BP已获得挪威立法机构的批准，继续在北海开发项目，该项目总储量约为10.7亿桶油当量。

Aker BP在周一的新闻发布会上表示，该许可为石油和能源部最终批准Yggdrasil地区和Valhall油田扩建项目的开发计划铺平了道路。

这家独立的勘探和生产公司早些时候宣布发现Yggdrasil项目，将其储量提高到7亿桶油当量以上。Aker BP在5月25日宣布，Ost Frigg Beta/Epsilon勘探井已接近钻井完成，预计将增加40万桶～9000万桶油当量。

与此同时，周一的公告称，Valhall PWP-Fenris扩建项目将为Valhall现有约1.37亿桶油当量的储量增加约2.3亿桶油当量。

媒体声明称，Yggdrasil和Valhall PWP-Fenris项目都处于详细工程阶段。

Aker BP计划在秋季开始建设Yggdrasil项目，项目高级副总裁在新闻稿中表示，“所有主要合同”都已签署，国内外买家已下了数千份订单。

他表示：“Yggdrasil是挪威大陆架的下一个主要开发项目，我们将与合作伙伴挪威国家石油公司和PGNIG Upstream Norway一起，在北海开辟一个成熟的区域。”

该公司表示，Valhall PWP-Fenris将按计划在夏季之前开始施工。通过Valhall PWP-Fenris项目，Fenris油田将通过一座桥梁与Valhall油田相连，该油田正在与PGNiG Upstream Norway AS合作开发，而Pandion Energy AS是Valhall的合作伙伴。

该公司首席执行官Johnny Hersvik评论道：“仅Yggdrasil和Valhall PWP-Fenris两家公司的投资额就超过1650亿挪威克朗。我们正在谈论的是我们国家的税收收入估计超过1200亿挪威克朗。”

挪威还将从Yggdrasil和Valhall PWP-Fenris获得约65%的交付量。

欧洲天然气

Valhall扩建项目旨在促进对欧洲的天然气出口。

“我们现在还将Valhall建成一个天然气中心。Fenris的生产将大大增加Valhall对欧洲的天然气出口，并将使天然气处理能力增加一倍以上。”Valhall高级副总裁Ole Johan Molvig表示。

在去年地缘政治冲突发生之前，挪威一直是欧洲仅次于产能大国的第二大天然气来源国。EIA在2022年2月11日的一份报告中称，2010年至2020年期间，欧盟和英国从北欧国家的进口量日均为90亿立方英尺，低于2020年从产能大国的日平均进口量130亿立方英尺，“因为挪威近海大陆架巴伦支海部分新油田的开发不足以抵消北海成熟油田的下降”。

气候危机

Aker BP在周一的声明中表示，Yggdrasil和Valhall PWP-Fenris项目已得到政府的批准，并于5月25日获得能源与环境常务委员会大多数议员的批准。

虽然挪威被认为是气候行动的领导者，但它因继续开发化石燃料而面临批评。

上个月，挪威石油和能源部(Petroleum and Energy Ministry)开启了该国大陆架石油生产的最新一轮许可，允许国家参与项目权利。颁发时，可以在每份生产许可证上载明国家参与该项目的情况。5月11日发布的申请邀请函表示，Petoro AS是代表国家参与利益(国家直接金融利益-SDFI)的被许可人。

2020年，最高法院驳回了环保和青年组织要求停止在北极开采新石油的诉讼。

Aker BP声称Fenris和Yggdrasil油田是低排放项目。该公司在周一的公告中表示：“这些开发项目有助于Aker BP实现打造低成本、低排放、盈利增长和有吸引力回报的未来油气公司的雄心。”

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Aker BP's 1.07 Bboe North Sea Projects Get Parliament Nod

Aker BP has received approval from Norway’s legislature to proceed with development projects in the North Sea that have about 1.07 billion barrels of oil equivalent (Bboe) in combined reserves.

The green light paves the way for final approval by the Petroleum and Energy Ministry of the development plans for the Yggdrasil area and the Valhall field extension project, Aker BP said in a press release Monday.

The independent exploration and production company earlier announced a Yggdrasil discovery that raises the area’s reserves to over 700 million boe (MMboe). Estimated to add 40 to 90 MMboe, the Ost Frigg Beta/Epsilon exploration well was nearing drilling completion, Aker BP said May 25 announcing the discovery.

Meanwhile the Valhall PWP-Fenris extension project would add around 230 MMboe to Valhall’s existing reserves of approximately 137 MMboe, Monday’s announcement said.

The Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris projects are both in the detailed engineering stage, the media statement said.

Aker BP plans to start construction for Yggdrasil in autumn. Senior vice-president Yggdrasil Lars H?ier said in the release “all major contracts” had been signed and thousands of orders have been placed by domestic and international buyers.

“Yggdrasil is the next major development on the Norwegian shelf, and along with partners Equinor and PGNIG Upstream Norway, we are now opening up a mature area in the North Sea”, H?ier said.

Valhall PWP-Fenris is ready to begin construction before summer as scheduled, the company said. The Fenris field, which through the Valhall PWP-Fenris project will be connected to the Valhall field by a bridge, is being developed with PGNiG Upstream Norway AS, while Pandion Energy AS is a partner for Valhall.

Chief executive Johnny Hersvik commented, “Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris alone constitute more than NOK 165 billion in investments. We are talking estimated tax revenue of more than NOK 120 billion for our nation”.

Norway will also get around 65 percent of deliveries from Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris, which have a combined contribution of “130,000 full-time equivalents in Norway through the fields’ lifetimes”, Oslo-listed Aker BP said.

Gas for Europe

The Valhall extension project aims to boost gas exports to Europe.

“We are now also establishing Valhall as a gas hub. Production from Fenris will substantially increase gas export from Valhall to Europe and will more than double gas processing capacity”, said senior vice-president for Valhall Ole Johan Molvig.

Norway had been Europe’s number two source of natural gas next to the largger producer last year. imports by the European Union and the United Kingdom from the Nordic country averaged nine billion cubic feet a day (Bcf/d) between 2010 and 2020, below the largger producer's 2020 average of 13 Bcf/d “as development of new fields in the Barents Sea section of the Norwegian offshore Continental Shelf was insufficient to offset declines from mature fields in the North Sea”, the USA Energy Information Administration said in a report February 11, 2022.

Amid trade sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s war, Norway overtook the largger producer as the EU’s top natural gas exporter 2022, accounting for 24.4 percent of the region’s imports compared to 15.3 percent from the largger producer, according to a bulletin update May 3 by the EU statistics agency Eurostat.

Climate Debacle

The Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris projects had been endorsed to parliament by the government and approved May 25 by the majority of lawmakers in the Energy and Environment Standing Committee, Aker BP said in Monday’s announcement.

While considered a leader in climate action, Norway has faced criticism for continued fossil fuel development.

Last month the Petroleum and Energy Ministry opened the latest licensing round for petroleum production in the nation’s continental shelf, with an option for state participation in project rights. “At the time of the award, state participation may be stipulated in each production license. Petoro AS is the licensee on behalf of the State's participating interest (the State's Direct Financial Interest - SDFI)”, said the invitation for applications released May 11.

In 2020 the Supreme Court ruled against a suit by environmental and youth organizations to stop new oil drilling in the Arctic.

Aker BP claimed the Fenris and Yggdrasil fields are low-emission projects. “The development projects contribute to Aker BP delivering on the ambition of creating the oil and gas company of the future with low costs, low emissions, profitable growth and attractive returns”, it said in Monday’s announcement.