Statoil is setting up a separate operational area in Northern Norway due to the considerable increase in activities taking place off the three northernmost counties in Norway.
“This will boost our presence in Northern Norway and help ensure added valued from the Northern fields in the future”, company CEO Helge Lund says in a press release on Statoil’s web site.
Lund adds that there are expectations of further activities in Northern Norway, owing to the increase in exploration in newly opened areas and in areas expected to be made available to the petroleum industry; initially the Barents Sea, and subsequently areas in the north-eastern Norwegian Sea.
The new operational area will be responsible for the Norne and Aasta Hansteen (earlier named Luva) fields outside Helgeland in Nordland county, as well as the Snøhvit gas field outside Finnmark.
Hammerfest in Finnmark, host for the current operational organization for the Snøhvit gas field, is still a candidate to hold the operational organization for the Skrugard/Havis oil fields in the Barents Sea. A decision on this question has not yet been made, Oilinfo writes.
