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REGIONAL REPORT The Arctic

Equinor has used the West Hercules drilling rig to explore for hydrocarbons in the Barents Sea.

Source: Ole Jørgen Bratland, Equinor

High North are concerned. Port Director Per Åge Hansen.

With few exceptions Norwegian national service provid- The Northern Norwegian Sea is operated from Sand- ers prefer to commute their human resources from their nessjøen and comprises the ? eld centers Aker-BP-operated

Southern headquarters to the North. While British and Skarv, Equinor-operated Norne and the largest spar plat- other international contractors are more known for bring- form in the world, the Equinor-operated Aasta Hansteen. ing their technologies with them and recruit, train and Smaller satellite ? elds are developed with subsea technol- employ local labor. That contributes to more local content ogy and tied in to these ? eld centers.

and is very much appreciated in the region. Examples of The oil companies and the Norwegian Petroleum Direc- such companies are ASCO, Swire and Score. torate (NPD) are managing their interests in the Barents

Hammerfest has established and maintains strong Sea and the Northern Norwegian Sea from of? ces in the connections with other arctic stakeholders like Scot- town of Harstad.

land, Aberdeen, Canada, St. Johns and Halifax, Russia Exploration on the Norwegian Shelf and in the Barents and China. Cooperation includes energy city compe- Sea is pro? table. The NPD’s resource report for explora- tence, technology transfer, transport and logistics, mari- tion shows that every 1,000 kroner invested in exploration time services to vessels and alternative energy sources. in the Barents Sea has given 2,100 kroner in return.

A strong force in this cooperation is the Lord Provost On the Russian side, oil and gas resources are enormous of Aberdeen and president of World Energy Cities Part- in size. Production is dominated by the Novatek LNG nership – WECP, Barney Crockett. And in Hammerfest, production in Sabetta, Yamal, with an annual production 40 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM