PGNiG Upstream Norway, a subsidiary of state-owned Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG), has purchased a 40 percent stake in the Oern gas deposit in the Norwegian Sea from Wellesley Petroleum, PGNiG said in a statement on Friday.
The new deposit is expected to provide an additional 0.25 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas annually from 2026. According to Norwegian authorities, the deposit’s capacity is about 6.75 bcm of natural gas, 0.17 million tonnes of oil and 0.79 million tonnes of natural gas liquids.
PGNiG CEO Iwona Waksmundzka-Olejniczak described the company’s Norwegian Continental Shelf investments as a “priority foreign market, also due to its importance to the diversification of gas supplies to Poland.”
It is the second deposit PGNiG Upstream Norway has bought from Wellesley Petroleum.
PGNiG Upstream Norway holds shares in 59 licences on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and carries out extraction from 14 deposits. Last year the company’s production volume reached 1.42 bcm of natural gas compared to 0.48 bcm in 2020. For this year, PGNiG forecasts extraction volume at 3 bcm.
??#PGNiG Upstream Norway AS has signed an agreement with Wellesley Petroleum AS for the purchase of shares in the Ørn gas field in the Norwegian Sea. Its exploitation will provide PGNiG Group with an additional 0.25 bcm of #naturalgas per year from 2026.
➡️https://t.co/DDRkYdY9wg pic.twitter.com/ane4uR0toz— PGNiG (@GK_PGNiG) May 20, 2022