14/01/2025
In the 2024 awards in pre-defined areas (APA), 20 companies have been offered ownership interests in a total of 53 production licences on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).
The authorities reviewed applications from a total of 21 companies in autumn 2024. Of these 53 production licences, 33 are in the North Sea, 19 in the Norwegian Sea and 1 in the Barents Sea. 20 of the production licences are additional acreage for existing production licences.
“This year’s awards show that the companies on the NCS are still very confident in their ability to make more discoveries near existing oil and gas infrastructure. This is important for further value creation,” says Kalmar Ildstad, Director of licence management in the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.
New, user-friendly solution provides good overview
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate is launching an offer dashboard this year in connection with announcing APA 2024. This dashboard shows acreage, work programmes and companies with associated ownership interests and roles.
About the dashboard:
- GIS interfaces (Esri platform). Offered acreage is shown in interactive maps.
- FactMaps are included as layers in maps.
- User-friendly:
- Provides a quick and easy overview of all offered production licenses.
- Search functionality – for example, you can quickly gain an overview of which production licences a company has been offered.
- The map makes it easy to identify additional acreage by highlighting the mother licence. There is also a link to the FactPages for the mother licence.
- Users can easily download data for import into their own GIS solutions.
Everything you need to know about APA 2024
Updated: 31/01/2025
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