Europe upstream in brief

Table of contents

• ExxonMobil sells UK assets to NEO Energy for over US$1bn
• Seven companies apply for ‘frontier’ acreage in Norway’s 25th licensing round
• Netherlands launches its first multi-operator decommissioning campaign
• How will UK M&A rebound in 2021?
• Evelyn becomes first North Sea FID of 2021
• Fiscal reforms will smooth transition of the Netherlands’ ultra-mature upstream sector
• Equinor’s Q4 2020 results: Johan Sverdrup reaches payback 16 months after first oil
• All change in Italy – exploration moratorium ends and new government forms
• Podcast: A look back at Europe's upstream in 2020
• Revised Oil and Gas Authority strategy comes into effect
• Equinor makes first Norwegian discovery of 2021 at Røver Nord in the Troll area
• Global exploration delivers in 2020 – the North Sea plays its part
• TPAO continues Sakarya appraisal and considers partners for its Black Sea giant
• EnQuest buys Suncor's stake in Golden Eagle Area for US$325 million
• OMV Petrom reports resilient 2020 results and signals 2021 as crucial year in Black Sea
• Ireland moves to ban future licensing
• In memoriam of Hans Christen Rønnevik (1945-2021)
• KNOC set to sell North Sea asset package
• Norway’s Lundin Energy brings its net zero target forward to 2025
• Ukraine grants Naftogaz offshore Black Sea blocks without competition
• PE-backed NEO Energy set to acquire UK portfolio from ExxonMobil
• What next for the Majors in the UK as BP looks to offload assets?
• Norway’s APA 2020 licensing round: strong turnout despite price crash
• Vermilion Energy emphasises European investment in 2021 budget
• Wintershall Noordzee brings Dutch Sillimanite South discovery onstream
• Lots to look for in European exploration in 2021
• Norway’s carbon taxes are set to rise
• Sval Energi to acquire Edison’s Norwegian portfolio for US$300 million
• i3 Energy relinquishes Liberator in UK’s Moray Firth
• Viaro Energy buys SSE assets for £120 million
• ConocoPhilips announces second large Norway discovery in two months
• Energean completes acquisition of Edison E&P
• UK oil and gas industry on brink of change as UK Government publishes Energy White Paper
• Podcast: What to look for in Europe’s upstream in 2021
• Equinor’s large Snorre Expansion Project onstream early and under budget in Norway
• Decommissioning in the UK: the cash flow vs. cost savings operator dilemma
• Surprise result in Romania’s parliamentary election could delay upstream reforms
• Watch our recent North Sea webinar
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• Denmark becomes the first major producer to call time on oil and gas
• ADX Energy becomes sole explorer in Austria’s Molasse basin
• Watch the recording of our recent Black Sea event
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• Ithaca and BP bring Vorlich onstream
• SpotOn Energy’s entry revives hopes for Ireland’s offshore Barryroe project
• Norway launches its frontier 25th licensing round
• Podcast: Mitigating upstream investment risk in the North Sea
• North Sea explorers – finding more with less
• Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) start-up marks the completion of Europe’s Southern Gas Corridor
• LUKOIL plans to exit the Black Sea
• Podcast: Norway’s temporary tax terms boost upstream activity
• Total delays start-up at Tyra redevelopment
• A long and winding M&A road for Eastern Europe’s national champions?
  • Introducing Lens Upstream Optimisation
• Majors’ Northern Endurance Partnership to develop offshore CO 2 infrastructure in North Sea
• Equinor sets net zero ambition
• Nitrogen impasse threatens to derail Wintershall Noordzee’s Netherlands oil project
• Podcast:In-depth look at Romania’s upstream sector
• Norway’s Hammerfest LNG outage extended to a year after fire incident
• TPAO’s world-class Black Sea Sakarya gas discovery just got bigger
• Valeura Energy sells Turkish conventional gas business to focus on Thrace tight gas play
• Doing more with less – the recent revival of North Sea exploration
• Eni awarded carbon storage licence for Liverpool Bay area
• Chrysaor buys Premier through reverse takeover
• Recent North Sea exploration activity and performance: a Lens Upstream snapshot
• What next after Turkish Petroleum completes controversial well offshore Cyprus?
• Lundin Energy strengthens its Barents Sea position in US$125 million deal
• Strike action shuts-in production at six Norwegian fields
• Wintershall Dea to switch its German upstream facilities to 100% green power by 2021
• Lower production cap imposed at Shell and ExxonMobil’s giant Groningen field in the Netherlands
• The new North Sea Financial Flexibility Index
• Equinor takes FID at Breidablikk in Norway
• Vermilion Energy and IPC’s Paris Basin assets affected by Total’s French refinery conversion
• Is a Premier Oil-Chrysaor merger on the cards?
• Podcast: Technology for a Net Zero North Sea
• PGNiG steps closer to its Norwegian gas target with two acquisitions from Shell
• Partners at Romania’s Midia Gas Development reach another key milestone
• TPAO’s Kanuni drillship reinforces Turkey's Black Sea exploration charge
• ONE Dyas to restart drilling at large Kampen prospect, offshore Netherlands
• Closing the Gap - Technology for a Net Zero North Sea
• Podcast:Exploration in the North and Black Seas
• What does Turkey’s giant discovery mean for the Majors in the Black Sea?
• UK’s 32nd Offshore Licensing Round: strong uptake but an uncertain future
• Exploration in the North Sea: a recent renaissance
• UK decommissioning discussed at Decom North Sea
• Delek aims to cash in on Ithaca
• Buzzard Phase II the latest UK project to be delayed
• The (pressing) case for UK consolidation
• TPAO lands a giant catch with Black Sea Tuna-1 well
• Norwegian Yme project faces further delays
• What is Shell up to in the UK’s Southern Gas Basin?
• Equinor announces new CEO
• Neptune Energy strikes oil at Dugong in Norway
• Equinor sells a portion of its UK Bressay heavy oil discovery to EnQuest
• Delays at Rembrandt & Vermeer paint bleak Dutch picture
• Will the Chevron-Noble deal kick-start a new wave of East Med M&A?
• Small-cap M&A gets a post-crash kick-start in Continental Europe
• Chevron strengthens East Med position with acquisition of Noble Energy
• PKN Orlen on course to become Poland’s national energy giant
• Norwegian explorers continue to excel in 2020
  • Norway players given a boost by temporary tax incentives - now in our Lens upstream dataset
• Podcast: Electrification of North Sea platforms
• Ireland’s Kinsale area gas fields end production
• Equinor’s giant Johan Castberg 'delayed' as coronavirus impact bites
• Premier Oil pulls out of UK deal with Dana Petroleum
• Viaro Energy agrees US$310 million deal to acquire RockRose
• Eni delays Montenegro wildcats to 2021
• Energean cuts Edison E&P purchase price by US$466 million
• The times they are a-changin’ in Ireland – ExxonMobil exits and a new coalition government takes charge
• Aker BP sanctions Hod redevelopment off Norway
• Podcast: The post-crash outlook for Europe upstream
• Norway passes landmark tax reform
  • ExxonMobil and Shell to test early appetite for North Sea M&A
• How does Continental Europe look in Lens Upstream?
• Decarbonising Norway's upstream industry - is it profitable?
• Aker BP and Equinor reach development consensus at the giant NOAKA project
• After the crash - what's changed in North Sea upstream?
• Romania revises plans for 11th licensing round amid regulatory mismatch
• Sleipner electrification gets the go-ahead
• Repsol exits deepwater Khan Asparuh block in Bulgaria
• After the crash – what’s changed in Continental Europe upstream?
• North Sea exploration: why is Norway better-placed to weather the storm than the UK?
• Premier and BP agree revised terms for US$625 million UK deal
• UK government releases post-Brexit Emissions Trading System proposal
• Belorusneft strikes light oil in Belarus
• The Majors in upstream: a Lens snapshot
• The Majors' UK portfolios in Lens: invest or divest?
• UK North Sea decommissioning: under the spotlight
• Shell and ExxonMobil to seek Groningen arbitration
• Podcast: North Sea upstream energy transition update
• Hurricane Energy shuts-in Lancaster well
• Total modifies UK asset sale
• Neptune Energy cancels deal with Energean
• Could BP sell more UK assets?
• Premier Oil delays first gas at Tolmount, UK
• Norway’s Northern Lights CCS project gets the go-ahead
• Equinor sells remaining stake in Lundin for US$336 million
• Norway responds to market challenges - a Lens snapshot
• BP hits pause at Clair South
• UK summertime blues: coronavirus pushes gas market to deadlock
• UK exploration continues to deliver
• Turkish Petroleum continues controversial Cyprus campaign
• Norway responds to oil market challenges
• Serica Energy announces likely delays at multiple UKCS projects
• Expert Petroleum signs Ukraine’s first Production Enhancement Contract (PEC)
• UK: challenging times ahead
• What next for the Majors in the UK?
• Europe’s small E&Ps feel the squeeze
• Bargain North Sea crudes head to China
• FID on Shell’s Jackdaw delayed to 2021
• INEOS delays Forties Pipeline shut down
• Majors apply brakes ahead of high impact exploration in Cyprus
• Capital guidance: MOL cuts 2020 spend by 25% across value chain
• The North Sea at US$30/bbl
• Norwegian authorities approve Equinor’s pioneering Hywind Tampen wind farm
• Wintershall Dea strikes oil at Bergknapp in the Norwegian Sea
• How will the oil price crash impact near-term exploration in Europe?
• Turkish Petroleum completes controversial Cyprus drilling campaign
• Capital guidance: amid cuts, carbon emissions remain on the agenda
• Equinor finalises exit from Turkey’s Thrace basin tight gas play
• Coronavirus: impact on European gas markets
• Norwegian government considers tax changes to support sector under pressure
• What impact will the coronavirus have on North Sea production?
  • Potentially an uptick in the immediate short-term
  • But downside risk is around the corner
  • 500,000 boe/d at risk from under development projects
• Siccar Point and Shell push back Cambo
• Capital guidance: the cost cuts continue
• What are the implications for North Sea M&A at US$30/bbl?
• European operators respond to low oil prices by cutting costs
• Neptune Energy announces German Rhine valley discovery
• EnQuest announces Heather and Thistle unlikely to restart
• i3 Energy and Dolphin Drilling agree farm-in deal for Serenity, UK
• Eni and Edison (Energean) revise Cassiopea start-up in Italy
• Oil price crash: deep investment cuts are coming
• One well, two discoveries – MOL finds exploration success in the Norwegian North Sea
• Total makes UK gas/condensate discovery at Isabella
• Oil price collapse brings market turmoil after OPEC+ fails to agree
• North Sea exploration in a low-carbon world: a new way of thinking
• Dutch nitrogen plant to tackle Groningen shut-in
• A shining start for Equinor’s Northern Lights carbon capture storage (CCS) project
• Appraisal fails to deliver at Total’s Glendronach
• Solo Oil pulls out of 32 million Dutch deal with ONE-Dyas
• ONE-Dyas to commence drilling of the giant Dutch Kampen
• The imminent impact of the energy transition on North Sea M&A
• Coronavirus: how is it impacting North Sea projects?
• Wintershall Noordzee brings UK/Netherlands Sillimanite onstream
• PGNiG agrees Norwegian swap deal with Aker BP
• BP delays Clair South in search of low carbon future
• Europe’s 2020 wildcats to watch
• First oil for BP's West of Shetland Alligin field
• OMV Petrom results highlight cautious optimism for Romania reforms
• End of the road in Turkey for Equinor's Thrace basin tight gas journey
• Wintershall Noordzee pictures mid-year FID for Rembrandt and Vermeer
• Lens database: key price assumption update
• UK North Sea decommissioning in the 2020s
• North Sea M&A: 2010s in review and what to expect in the 2020s
  • North Sea M&A in the 2010s: the numbers*
• Shell reaffirms commitment to UK Southern North Sea
• Lundin announces decarbonisation strategy
• Jersey Oil and Gas acquires Equinor’s stake in Verbier
• East Med tensions rise ahead of upcoming Eni and Total exploration campaign
• Norway’s mature licensing round 2019 – Awards in Pre-defined Areas (APA)
• A rollercoaster of a decade has transformed European exploration
• OMV Petrom makes further progress with Romania portfolio optimisation
• European Green Deal 2050: challenges ahead for Europe’s upstream sector
• Premier Oil pays up to US$870 million in UK North Sea shopping spree
• EastMed pipelineparticipants retain ambitions of 2022 FID following non-binding supply deal
• Equinor targets near-zero emissions from Norway operations by 2050
• Eni returns to Albania after a 20-year absence
• Vår Energi takes FID at flagship Norwegian project: Balder X
• Applications are in for the UKCS 32 nd offshore licensing round
• Ossian-Darach deliversunexpected results in the UK Southern North Sea
• NAM resumes Dutch onshore exploration
• Total’s Tempa Rossa finally onstream in Italy after lengthy delays
• Equinor makes history with first production at Barnacle in UK NNS
• Hurricane Energy’s latest well delivers mixed results
• Coro Energy sells its Italian gas portfolio to Zenith Energy
• Ceremony marks full completion of TANAP pipeline – the heart of Europe’s Southern Gas Corridor
• Cairn Energy exits Norway with disposal of Capricorn Norge
• Valeura Energy and Equinor report best tight gas results in Turkey’s Thrace basin
• Romanian election result raises hopes of brighter offshore future
• Total exits Ireland amid below and above-ground risks
• Storr: Beryl Area’s latest subsea tie-back is onstream
• ExxonMobil disposal programme: what’s for sale in Europe?
• Dealhunter: who could buy UK's PE-backed Siccar Point?
• ADX Energy closes in on Austria upstream entry
• Resources rise at Rathlin Energy’s West Newton discovery onshore UK
• European Investment Bank (EIB) to stop lending to unabated fossil fuel projects from the end of 2021
• UK CATS pipeline system owner sold to international investment funds
• EU approvessanctions against Turkey for drilling in Cypriot waters in East Med
• Ithaca completes US$2 billion Chevron UK North Sea acquisition
• Pandion Energy sells stake in Norway’s Duva field
• Equinor makes a discovery at Echino Sør in the Norwegian North Sea
• Cyprus approvals confirm path to development for Aphrodite
• Private equity in the North Sea: what's next?
• Private equity should explore more in the UK
• MOL agrees its biggest ever M&A deal to enter Azerbaijan
• UK government ends support for fracking in England
• Nord Stream 2 receives Danish construction permit
• i3 Energy hits oil at Serenity in UK Outer Moray Firth
• Independent Oil & Gas takes FID at Core Phase 1 in UK
• New PE-backed Waldorf Production acquires Endeavour Energy UK
• Dealhunter: Utilities continue upstream exit– who is next?
• More tight gas success for Valeura Energy and Equinor in Turkey
• Tolmount East appraisal success for Premier Oil
• PGNiG makes discovery with Shrek in Norwegian Sea
• Neptune Energy to acquire ex-Edison North Sea assets from Energean for up to US$280 million
• Equinor takes FID at Hywind Tampen offshore Norway
• ONE-Dyas sells Dutch asset packages to Solo Oil and HALO
• Turkey continues controversial East Med drilling campaign
• Wellwatcher: how do you measure exploration success in Europe?
• Equinor brings Norwegian giant Johan Sverdrup onstream
• Setback in Ireland as Barryroe farm-in falls through
• Romania proposes improvements to Offshore Law
• US$2.7 billion Chrysaor deal for ConocoPhillips has closed
• ExxonMobil exits Norway in US$4.5 billion deal with Vår Energi
• Ireland pledges to phase out oil and gas exploration
• Is Norwegian M&A set to catch fire?
• Total and Eni confirm expanded exploration partnership in Cyprus’ prolific waters
• Bosnia and Herzegovina joins the European licensing party
• Equinor makes gas discovery at Ørn
• Ukraine cancels award of giant Dolphin exploration block in Black Sea
• Groningen gas production could cease by 2022
• Hurricane Energy celebrates successful fractured basement appraisal at Lincoln
• Is Europe still a draw for exploration by the Majors?
• Valeura Energy and Equinor enjoy tight gas test success in Turkey’s Thrace basin
• A positive result for Croatia’s 2 nd Onshore Bidding Round
• New Italian coalition government arises after a tumultuous week
• Romania steps closer to gas levy U-turn
• UK M&A - are buyers still out there?
• High-profile Irish deepwater wildcat well comes in dry
• Equinor makes potentially commercial Barents discovery
• First oil from Equinor’s Mariner heavy oil field in the UK Northern North Sea
• Does Norway’s project pipeline show explorers are not delivering?
• Cairn Energy sells half of its stake in Nova to ONE-Dyas
• Bulgaria announces tender for deepwater Tervel block in Black Sea
• Cyprus approves Total and Eni exploration licence deals
• Another legacy player up for sale in the North Sea
• IOG and CalEnergy team up for UK Southern Gas Basin development
• Equinor announces further capex reduction at the giant Johan Sverdrup
• Ukraine confirms winning bidder for giant Dolphin block in Black Sea
• Romania announces long-awaited 11 th licensing round
• Are we about to witness a North Sea private equity sell off?
• Edison picks up acreage offshore Malta
• OGA awards Greater Buchan Area acreage
• Equinor’s Trestakk reaches first oil in the Norwegian Sea
• Deepwater disappointment for Shell in Bulgaria - what next for Black Sea exploration?
• OGA kicks off 32 nd licensing round in the UK
• Aker BP’s Liatårnet oil discovery adds another piece to the NOAKA puzzle
• Cuadrilla set to re-start hydraulic fracturing in northwest England
• Petrogas and HitecVision take Total UK asset package in $635m deal
• Equinor and Lundin Petroleum agree swap deal
• Energean beats competition to acquire Edison’s E&P assets
• Lyon and Warwick Deep disappoint in UK West of Shetland – what’s next?
• Total and ExxonMobil sign deepwater concessions in Greece
• Alpha Petroleum’s Cheviot put on hold, again
• Equinor takes over ‘development operatorship’ of Wisting from OMV in the Norwegian Barents Sea
• ExxonMobil weighs up US$3.2 billion Norway exit
• Siccar Point’s Cambo – a core part of the PE-backed player’s growth story
• Lundin makes two discoveries near Edvard Grieg in Norway
• Chrysaor picks up further acreage in UK Beryl Area
• UGV dominates Ukraine’s latest licensing round
• OKEA IPO fails to impress
• Could ONE-Dyas’s latest wildcat be a game changer for the UK Mid North Sea High?
• Large UK onshore gas discovery at West Newton
• Equinor makes discovery in the Norwegian Sea but the Barents continues tounderperform
• Another setback in Italy for Total's Tempa Rossa oil field
• Ukraine’s offshore Dolphin PSC tender fails to make a splash
• Total turns on the taps at Culzean in the UK
• PGNiG acquires a stake in the King Lear field from Total offshore Norway
• OGA dishes out UK 31st Licensing Round Awards
• PSC amendment opens the door for Aphrodite in Cyprus
• 2019 M&A comes alive in the UK with two big deals in Q2 so far
• First oil for Hurricane at Lancaster
• Equinor announces three year delay to Rosebank FID
• Chevron sells UK North Sea business to Delek for US$2 billion
• CNOOC and ExxonMobil spud wildcat at Ireland's giant Iolar prospect
• Shell gets positive results at key Shpiragu appraisal well in Albania
• Norway's run of dry holes pulls tax incentives into the spotlight
• Edison confirms Italy's offshore Argo Cluster is on schedule
• Fairfield Decom: the UK’s new decommissioning JV
• Siccar Point completes Blackrock well - what next for the UK West of Shetlands?
• UK M&A: Majors selling and PE buying continues – but what next?
• Wintershall Dea merger completes
• OMV Petrom's Q1 2019 results highlight strategic challenges in Romania
• Israel's Delek Group in pole position for Chevron's CNS package
• PE buys from PE: Partners Group acquires HitecVision’s CapeOmega for US$1.35 billion
• Exploration success – for the few, not the many
• Chrysaor acquires ConocoPhillips UK assets for US$2.7 billion
• Hurricane Energy spuds Warwick exploration well in UK fractured basement
• Mariner start-up pushed back again
• Ukraine flips licensing focus with offer of the large offshore Dolphin block
• Greek offshore bonanza — new production and new licences
• Knock, knock— who's at ConocoPhillips' door now?
• Mime Petroleum breaks its silence with Balder and Ringhorne acquisition in Norway
• Lundin takes FID on Solveig (formerly Luno II) in the prolific Utsira High
• Seagull - the first to fly the UK FID nest in 2019
• Where next for Major-led exploration in Europe?
• Greenland prepares for new exploration campaign
• Who will win Edison's upstream asset sale?
• Siccar Point Energy spuds first of two exciting West of Shetland wells
• Norway exploration sparks with latest Aker BP discovery
• All eyes on the UK as Norway M&A activity slows down
• Could a new volcanic theory renew exploration in the Central North Sea?
• Ukraine licensing round fails to attract international bid
• RockRose Energy makes IOG acquisition proposal
• Shell and ExxonMobil's Dutch gas giant Groningen — shut in as early as 2024?
• Equinor makes near-field discovery close to its Visund hub
• Tulip Oil's Q/10-A onstream in the Dutch North Sea
• ExxonMobil makes 2019's largest discovery in Cyprus
• RockRose to quadruple its production - but what about decommissioning?
• Neptune Energy takes FID on Duva and Gjøa P1 in the Norwegian North Sea
• Will private equity-backed companies fill the UK exploration gap in the coming years?
• Perenco reviewing its options - what does its portfolio look like?
• Italy hits pause on exploration and appraisal
• UK's first fracking site reports stable flows of 0.1 mmcfd
• US$4 billion of UK assets about to change hands?
• Shell farms in to UK Southern Gas Basin licences, near its operated hubs
• Carlyle-backed Black Sea Oil & Gas takes key Romania FID
• OGA opens Greater Buchan Area for business
• Lundin Petroleum Capital Markets Day — the future is bright
• Repsol acquires Mikkel stake from Total in the Norwegian Sea
• Dutch exploration – in need of a shot in the arm
• CNOOC's Glengorm largest UK discovery since Culzean in 2008
• Is North Sea exploration back in the black?
• Ukraine launches its latest licensing round
• Lundin Petroleum increases foothold in Norwegian Utsira High
• Korean National Oil Corporation's stake in Dana Petroleum in the spotlight
• Progress at pre-FID fields across the UKCS
• OMV increases its resource estimate at Wisting in the Barents Sea
• Norway's Award in Pre-defined Areas (APA) - drilling into the detail
• Fiscal disruption: Romania introduces turnover levy
• DNO acquires Faroe Petroleum, but what's next?
• Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) completes EUR 3.9 billion project financing
• The death knell for Italian exploration?
• Norway's festive exploration campaign fails to deliver the goods
• Dyas and Oranje-Nassau Energie (ONE) agree to merge their upstream businesses

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