As a result of the Wintershall Dea transaction, Harbour acquired a significant asset base in Norway and became the largest international independent oil and gas company in the country, and we are the second largest exporter of natural gas. In 2024, our Norway business produced 178kboepd on a pro forma basis.
Norway is Harbour’s largest producing country and accounts for over a third of our daily production. Production averaged 158 kboepd from 3 September to 31 December 2024, contributing 52 kboepd to the Group’s full year production (2023: N/A).
Our production is gas weighted and diversified across several key fields and export hubs providing multiple routes into the European gas markets.
We operate four producing fields in Norway, including Maria (50% interest), Dvalin (55% interest), Nova (39% interest) and Vega (56.7% interest). These are all tie-back fields which utilise existing nearby infrastructure to process and export hydrocarbons.
Nova and Vega are tied back to the North Sea Gjøa platform (28% non-operated interest), which is our largest hub in Norway. In 2024 we were operator of the nearby Cuvette discovery (50%), and we hold a number of regional exploration licenses including the non-operated Gjøa North and Ofelia discoveries.
Other key hubs include the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, Skarv (28% non-operated interest), which is the host for several fields and developments in the Norwegian Sea. These include Alve Nord (20% non-operated interest) and Idun Nord (28% non-operated interest).. Skarv continues to have significant development potential, including as a potential host for several recent Harbour discoveries, including Adriana and Sabina (38% operated interest) and Storjo (30% non-operated interest), which were all successfully appraised in 2024. Skarv is operated by Aker BP.
Aasta Hansteen (24% non-operated interest) is a major gas export hub in the Norwegian Sea. It is in the heart of a highly prospective area where Harbour holds a number of promising exploration licenses, and is the host for the Irpa (19% non-operated interest) development, which is due to come on stream this decade. Aasta Hansteen is operated by Equinor.
Harbour is operator of the Maria field (50%) which is in the central part of the Norwegian Sea and in the vicinity of the Bergknapp discovery (40% operated interest). A major revitalisation of the Maria field, Maria Phase 2, is underway now, including a new four-well subsea tieback to existing infrastructure. Production start-up expected during summer 2025.
Additionally, Harbour has a 55% operated interest the Dvalin field and the Dvalin North development, together the Dvalin Area.
Harbour has further non-operated interests in a number of producing assets in Norway - for full details of our licence interests in Norway, see our worldwide licence interests page.