Equinor, Aker BP, Var Energi form NCS exploration alliance to target major discoveries

• Vår Energi joined Equinor, Aker BP in a strategic exploration collaboration targeting the largest remaining prospects on Norway’s continental shelf.
• Plan to mature, test about 20-25 high-impact prospects over the next four to five years.
• Ambition to drill about five high-impact exploration wells a year under the collaboration.
• Partnership aims to share risk, combine data, technology, capacity to pursue prospects with higher uncertainty, complexity, capital needs.
• Group targets standalone field developments as output from existing NCS fields is expected to decline after 2035 without new finds.

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