(IN BRIEF) Equinor has confirmed its participation in Ørsted’s planned Rights Issue, committing to subscribe for up to DKK 6 billion (USD 939 million) to maintain its 10% ownership stake. The decision follows dialogue with Ørsted and reflects Equinor’s confidence … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged board nomination, DKK 6 billion, Empire Wind 1, energy transition, Equinor, industry consolidation, North-West Europe, Offshore wind, partnership, renewable energy, Rights Issue, shareholder support, sustainability, US offshore wind, USD 939 million, Ørsted
(IN BRIEF) TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell have officially started operations at Northern Lights, the world’s first merchant CO₂ transport and storage project. The first volumes of CO₂ were shipped from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik to the Øygarden terminal … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, France, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Arnaud Le Foll, Brevik cement plant, carbon capture and storage, CCS, Climate Strategy, CO₂ storage, CO₂ transport, Equinor, European decarbonization, Hafslund Celsio, Heidelberg Materials, North Sea, northern lights, Norway, partnership, Shell, Stockholm Exergi, sustainability, TotalEnergies, Yara, Ørsted, Øygarden terminal
(IN BRIEF) Northern Lights, the world’s first open-access CO₂ transport and storage network, has officially started operations by injecting the first CO₂ volumes into the Aurora reservoir 2,600 meters beneath the North Sea. Owned by Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, France, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Anders Opedal, Aurora reservoir, Brevik cement plant, carbon capture and storage, CCS, CO₂ storage, CO₂ transport, energy transition, Equinor, EU CEF Energy, European decarbonization, Heidelberg Materials, Irene Rummelhoff, Longship project, North Sea, northern lights, Norway, partnership, Shell, sustainability, TotalEnergies, Øygarden
(IN BRIEF) Equinor and its partners Vår Energi and INPEX Idemitsu have struck oil and gas in the Fram area of the North Sea, about nine kilometres north of the Troll field. Exploration well 35/11-31 S confirmed petroleum in two … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged Blasto, COSL Innovator, Echino South, Equinor, F-South discovery, Fram area, Fram South development, Geir Sørtveit, INPEX Idemitsu Norge, North Sea, Norwegian Continental Shelf, oil and gas exploration, partnership, production licence 090, sustainability, Troll field, Vår Energi
(IN BRIEF) DNV has been awarded a three-year contract to provide quality assurance and inspection services for Net Zero Teesside Power and the Northern Endurance Partnership, two cornerstone CCS projects in North East England. Covering everything from equipment inspections to … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged BP, carbon capture, carbon storage, CCS, DNV, East Coast Cluster, Equinor, Humber, inspection services, low-carbon electricity, Mariagrazia Silva, Mohamed Houari, Net Zero Teesside Power, Northern Endurance Partnership, partnership, quality assurance, sustainability, Teesside, TotalEnergies, UK energy transition
(IN BRIEF) ORLEN Upstream Norway, with operator Aker BP and partners Equinor and Petoro, has confirmed the largest oil discovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in 2025, with estimated recoverable volumes of 96–134 million barrels of oil equivalent. The Omega … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Poland, Technology
Tagged Aker BP, E-prospect, Equinor, geo-steering technology, horizontal wells, hydrocarbons, mmboe, North Sea, Norwegian Continental Shelf, offshore drilling, oil discovery, Omega Alpha, ORLEN 2035 Strategy, ORLEN Group, ORLEN Upstream Norway, partnership, Petoro, reservoir exposure, Skarv field, sustainability, upstream energy, Wiesław Prugar, Yggdrasil
(IN BRIEF) TotalEnergies has initiated oil production from its BEGONIA and CLOV Phase 3 subsea tie‑back projects in Angolan offshore Blocks 17/06 and 17, adding a combined 60,000 bpd by utilizing existing PAZFLOR and CLOV FPSO capacity. BEGONIA, the first inter‑block development on 17/06, ties … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, France, Industrial, Investment
Tagged Angola, Azule Energy, BEGONIA, Block 17, Block 17/06, CLOV FPSO, CLOV Phase 3, Equinor, ETU Energias, ExxonMobil, Falcon Oil, local content, Nicolas Terraz, One million barrels per day, Paulino Jerónimo, PAZFLOR FPSO, Sonangol E&P, SSI, subsea tie‑back, TotalEnergies, upstream production growth
(IN BRIEF) Equinor’s latest Barents Sea exploration well, Drivis Tubåen (7720/7-DD-1H), has uncovered 9–15 million barrels of oil within the Tubåen formation. Drilled as an offset from a production well by the Transocean Enabler, the discovery will be evaluated for … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged 000 bpd plateau, 2028 start-up, 220, 7720/7-DD-1H, 9–15 million barrels, Barents Sea, Drivis Tubåen, Equinor, exploration wells, Goliat region, Grete Birgitte Haaland, Isflak, Johan Castberg field, partnership, Petoro, PL532, reserve expansion, sustainability, Transocean Enabler, Tubåen formation, Vår Energi
(IN BRIEF) After 18 months of collaboration with 20 leading energy companies, DNV has validated wind farm flow control (WFFC) technology using its LongSim CFD platform. The joint industry project generated the most comprehensive performance dataset to date and agreed … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged Astrid Rusås Kristoffersen, bankability, benefit quantification, CFD simulation, Ditlev Engel, DNV, energy yield, Equinor, Iberdrola, JIP, Joint Industry Project, LongSim, partnership, Shell, sustainabiity, turbine integration, Vattenfall, webinar, WFFC, wind farm flow control, Ørsted
(IN BRIEF) DNV’s new KFX release enhances CFD simulations with specialized models for CO₂, ammonia, and hydrogen, enabling precise predictions of dry-ice formation, spray absorption, and explosion dynamics. Developed with Equinor, TotalEnergies, Vår Energi, and Horisont Energi, the update supports … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged ammonia, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, CCUS, CFD simulation, computational fluid dynamics, DNV, energy transition, Equinor, explosion modeling, EXSIM, fire simulation, gas dispersion, Horisont Energi, hydrogen, Kenneth Vareide, KFX, net-zero, partnership, quantitative risk assessment, sustainabiity, TotalEnergies, Trond Evanger, Vår Energi
(IN BRIEF) Equinor’s subsidiary BeGreen has commenced operations at the 65 MW Ingerslev Å solar plant in Jutland, Denmark—BeGreen’s inaugural project since its 2023 acquisition. Senior VP Anders Bade highlighted that this step supports Equinor’s aim to build a robust … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Denmark, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged 1.2 GW portfolio, 100 000 solar panels, 2023 acquisition, 65 MW capacity, 68 GWh annual production, Anders Bade, BeGreen, Danske Commodities, DK1 power market, Equinor, Ingerslev Å, Jutland Denmark, onshore renewables, partnership, rapid project cycle, solar plant, sustainability, transformer stations
(IN BRIEF) Equinor’s Johan Castberg field reached its intended plateau production of 220,000 barrels per day on 17 June, just three months after its FPSO vessel began operations on 31 March. Seventeen wells are currently online and delivering as forecast. … Read the full press release
(IN BRIEF) Heidelberg Materials inaugurated Brevik CCS—the cement industry’s first industrial-scale carbon capture and storage plant—at a ceremony attended by Crown Prince Haakon, Energy Minister Terje Aasland, and Dr Dominik von Achten. The facility will capture 400,000 tonnes of CO₂ … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged Brevik CCS, carbon storage, CCUS, cement industry, CO₂ capture, Dr Dominik von Achten, Equinor, evoZero, Giv Brantenberg, H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon, Heidelberg Materials, Longship programme, net-zero concrete, northern lights, Norway, partnership, Shell, sustainability, sustainable construction, Terje Aasland, TotalEnergies, Øygarden
(IN BRIEF) KfW IPEX-Bank has played a leading role in financing the Baltyk 2 and Baltyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland, each with a 740 MW capacity. With a EUR 3 billion financing for each project, KfW IPEX-Bank, as … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Poland, Technology
Tagged Baltyk 2, Baltyk 3, Coal Phase-Out, energy transition, Equinor, Euler Hermes, European export industry, export credit agencies, financing, greenhouse gas emissions, KfW IPEX-Bank, Offshore wind, offshore wind market, partnership, Poland, Polenergia, renewable energy, Siemens SG 14-236 DD, sustainability, Velibor Marjanovic
(IN BRIEF) Empire Offshore Wind LLC, a subsidiary of Equinor ASA, has resumed construction on the Empire Wind project after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management lifted the stop work order. The project, which is more than 30 percent complete, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged Anders Opedal, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Empire Offshore Wind, Empire Wind, energy infrastructure, Equinor, job creation, Molly Morris, New York, offshore installation, Offshore wind, partnership, renewable energy, stop work order, sustainability, U.S. energy projects
(IN BRIEF) Equinor has reported its best safety performance to date at the close of Q1 2025, with a serious incident frequency of 0.28 per million hours worked and a year-long TRIF of 2.2. No major accidents or serious well … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Norway, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged Always Safe program, corporate safety strategy, energy sector, Equinor, hydrocarbon leaks, Jannicke Nilsson, offshore safety, oil and gas safety, onshore safety, Q1 2025, risk prevention, safety culture, serious incident frequency, sustainability, TRIF, workplace safety
(IN BRIEF) Equinor has established a new Power business area by integrating its renewable energy assets with flexible power solutions from its MMP division. This strategic initiative is aimed at addressing the growing global demand for electricity fueled by increased … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged Anders Opedal, appointment, artificial intelligence, competitive, data centers, electrification, energy storage, energy transition, Equinor, Executive Vice President, flexible power, gas to power, global demand, Helge Haugane, INNOVATION, leadership, low-carbon energy, Marketing Midstream and Processing, MMP, Net Zero Teesside, Offshore wind, onshore wind, Poland, Power business area, PWR, renewables, Solar, Strategic Realignment, sustainability, sustainable growth, Triton Power, UK, US, value creation
(IN BRIEF) The European Investment Bank has granted a €260 million loan to Stockholm Exergi to construct Sweden’s first large-scale BECCS facility at Värtaverket, expected to be operational by 2028. The project, Beccs Stockholm, will capture up to 800,000 tonnes … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Luxembourg, Management, News, Sweden, Technology
Tagged 000 tonnes CO₂, 800, Anders Egelrud, BECCS, Beccs Stockholm, carbon capture and storage, CCS, climate goals, EIB, Equinor, European Investment Bank, Microsoft, negative emissions, net zero, Nordic industry, Northern Lights project, partnership, Shell, Stockholm Exergi, Stockholm road traffic emissions, Thomas Östros, TotalEnergies, urban air quality, Värtaverket
(IN BRIEF) The 2024 report on Equinor’s deliveries in Norway shows significant growth, with procurement reaching NOK 142.6 billion—up from NOK 134 billion in 2023. An impressive 93% of these deliveries were sourced from Norwegian suppliers across 260 municipalities, creating … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged 000 full-time equivalents, 2035 targets, 260 municipalities, 85, development projects, development wells, electrification projects, Employment, Equinor, exploration, exploration wells, Hywind Tampen, Johan Castberg, Kjetil Hove, Kunnskapsparken Bodø, NOK 142.6 billion, northern lights, Norwegian Continental Shelf, Norwegian deliveries, Norwegian suppliers, onshore facilities, renewable energy, subsea developments
(IN BRIEF) DNV has launched DNV-RP-0670, an asset information modelling framework designed to modernize asset information management in the energy sector. The framework establishes a common digital language that streamlines information flow among organizations and IT systems, replacing outdated document-driven … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, News, Norway, Technology
Tagged Aibel, Aker BP, Aker Solutions, artificial intelligence, asset information modelling, automation, compliance verification, cost savings, data-driven, digital language, DNV, DNV-RP-0670, energy sector, Equinor, Helge Ferdinand Schjøtt, information silos, interoperability, Lillian Hella, Lucy Craig, Norwegian Continental Shelf, Operational Efficiency, POSC Caesar Association, SIRIUS Centre, standardization
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