Wintershall Dea, the company viewed as Germany’s national oil and gas player and which is a shareholder in the Norwegian-run Hammerfest LNG export project, has submitted a plan for development of the Dvalin North gas field in the Norwegian Sea to help boost pipelines gas supplies for Europe.
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has updated its estimate of projected European natural gas sales in 2022 to about 8 percent higher than last year and set to be bolstered by the restarting Hammerfest LNG export plant in Northern Norway and with the volumes helping to offset declining Russian gas sales.
Equinor, the Norwegian energy company formerly known as Statoil has awarded a major contract to Nexans in France to design, manufacture and supply a total of 42 kilometres of static infield and inter-field umbilicals to control the subsea production systems linked to the Hammerfest LNG plant.