Twenty-one of the awards are located in the North Sea, ten in the Norwegian Sea, and four in the Barents Sea, 17 of the licences with Equinor as an operator.
Equinor and Shell have completed a deal to combine their UK offshore oil and gas operations to form a new company. Adura will be the UK North Sea’s largest independent producer.
Equinor has closed the sale of a 40% operated interest in the Peregrino field in Brazil to PRIO. Following this transaction, PRIO assumes full operatorship of the field.