挪威国家石油公司计划将在未来几年内将油气勘探的重心由本国移到北极区域。公司在挪威的勘探主管向路透社记者透露，由于原油价格暴跌导致公司在本国的勘探开发受阻。
未来几年的勘探开发对挪威国家石油公司未来的产油量至关重要。如果没有发现新的储量区块，公司的产油量会在2025年后在现有水平基础上下降。新区块从发现到陆续投产一般需要15年的时间。
当被问及在挪威的勘探规模减小是否为永久性时，挪威国家石油公司负责英国和挪威开发的主管表示相比今年未来几年的勘探规模将有所增大。
他在一次石油会议的间隙表示：我们正在寻求第23个勘探许可以期在本次勘探中有所收获。
所谓的第23个勘探许可是北极地区重要的石油许可证，该许可允许公司开发与俄罗斯接壤的北极地区未开发的Barents海。改许可预计将在七月前宣布。
虽然地质风险较高，但我们有了勘探更大储量的机会，挪威国家石油公司如果要保持现有产量水平到2030年，冒这样的风险是应当的。
挪威海上接近一半的未探明储量位于Barents海。从2014年中期开始油价已暴跌62%，由于缺少基础设施且开发成本较高，在北极区域的勘探开发陷入停滞。
Averty表示公司一直在努力使北极区域的开发如Barents海的开发一样获得商业价值。
周二，挪威国家石油公司针对Barents海开发情况提出了一套新的称之为Cap-X的技术方案，该方案可降低成本，同时提高海底开发的效果。
Averty表示：“近期反对Barents海开发的一个主要原因是开发没有经济效益，而Cap-X技术可确保获得经济效益。”
然而，一些公司并不认同挪威国家石油公司的这一做法。Shell在本月早些时候已撤销了第23个勘探许可申请，其他的诸如ExxonMobil, Eni 和 Total公司直接就没有申请，其部分原因是这些公司正在世界其他地区寻找大的石油储量区块。
Shell公司挪威负责人在周二的会议上表示：“相比于在Barents海进行勘探，我们会倾向于那些会快速获得收益的区块上”。
来自/Rigzone 4月20日消息 编译/吴海君
HAMMERFEST, Norway, April 20 (Reuters) – Oil firm Statoil is looking to a rebound in exploration activity offshore Norway in the next few years with a focus on the Arctic, having curbed activity due to the oil price slump, the firm’s exploration chief for Norway told Reuters.
Exploration activity in the coming years is crucial to secure Statoil’s future production in its home base, which faces a decline from current levels after 2025 if mature fields are not replaced by new resources. It can take up to 15 years from discovery to a field to come on stream.
Asked whether a drop in exploration levels in Norway this year would be permanent, Jez Averty, Statoil’s head of exploration for Britain and Norway said: “We believe that it is lower (this year) than in the years to come.”
“We’re looking to the 23rd round to trigger an uptick in activity for us,” he said on the sidelines of an oil conference.
The so-called 23rd round is an Arctic-focused oil licensing round, set to open unexplored acreage in the Barents Sea in the Arctic, closer to the country’s border with Russia. The awards are expected to be announced before July.
“This gives us the opportunity to chase larger discoveries, all be it at a higher geological risk,” Averty said, adding that such discoveries were absolutely necessary if Statoil is to preserve production at today’s levels until 2030.
Around half of the undiscovered resources offshore Norway lie in the Barents Sea. But a 62 percent drop in crude prices since mid-2014 has put a break on activities in the Arctic, where it is more costly to develop projects, mainly due to the lack of infrastructure.
“We have struggled to commercialize the discoveries that have been made (in the Barents Sea),” Averty said.
On Tuesday Statoil presented a new set of technologies tailored for the Barents Sea, known as Cap-X, designed to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of subsea developments.
“One of the accusations that has been used against opening up the Barents recently is that it will never be economic. This (Cap-X) is very important in ensuring that it can be economic,” Averty said.
However, not everyone sees the same possibilities as Statoil. Shell withdrew its application from the 23rd licensing round earlier this month, while other majors such as ExxonMobil, Eni and Total did not apply, partly because they are searching for larger discoveries in other parts of the world.
“We have to bet on the business opportunities which give quicker revenues than a discovery in the Barents Sea,” Shell’s head of activities in Norway told the conference on Tuesday.
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