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Wintershall Dea is one of Norway’s biggest gas and oil producers and a committed partner.

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Wintershall Dea Who we are Vision
Wintershall Dea Who we are Vision
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Wintershall Dea is one of Europe’s leading independent gas and oil companies, with activity in five continents. In Norway, we operate along the length of the Norwegian Continental Shelf, from the North Sea to the Barents, and we are active in  exploration, field development and production. We are also one of Norway's most ambitious operators in carbon capture and storage (CCS). Norway is a core region for Wintershall Dea, delivering gas and oil for Europe’s industry and consumers today, as well as carbon management and hydrogen solutions for the future.

Wintershall Dea Norwegian Coast
Wintershall Dea Norwegian Coast

Wintershall Dea operates along the length of the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

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Strategic goal

Wintershall Dea is one of Norway’s biggest producers, delivering around 170,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. With fields under construction, Wintershall Dea will soon produce more than 200,000 daily barrels, making us the third-largest non-state operator on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. As a shareholder in multiple carbon storage licenses in Norway, we are also creating opportunities for European emitters to safely store hard to avoid greenhouse gas emissions.

Our expertise in every facet of hydrocarbon extraction and production, along with our ambition to grow, makes us well placed to expand our position on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Our outstanding team of explorers and engineers, supported by a team of international experts, means we are positioned to grasp opportunities to increase production on the shelf.

Wintershall Dea is a major production operator in Norway and a committed partner. As operator of three fields – Nova, Maria and Vega – we have the knowledge, history and resources to manage a significant growth in self-operated extraction. As a committed partner, on fields such as Skarv, Aasta Hansteen, Njord and Gjøa, we will continue to support our partners in maximising value from our investments.

With a healthy balance of gas and oil, Wintershall Dea has become a major gas exporter for the rest of Europe. Our current production already means we are the third-largest gas producer on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Wintershall Dea Ship Platform Gjøa
Wintershall Dea Ship Platform Gjøa

Tieback fields enable the production of hydrocarbons using existing infrastructure.

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Wintershall Dea/Rolf Skjong

Strategic implementation

We are currently operating the development of two new tieback fields in Norway, as well as the expansion of one more. All three Norwegian Sea developments  use existing infrastructure to help produce hydrocarbons from new reservoirs and discoveries. We will soon produce gas from the Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea, via a tieback to the Heidrun platform. Later, the Dvalin North field will produce gas via Dvalin and Heidrun, and a new subsea template on the Maria field will extract even more hydrocarbons via Kristin. 

All three concepts were born from Wintershall Dea's own discoveries.

Wintershall Dea Transocean Norge
Wintershall Dea Transocean Norge

Our team of geologists and geophysicists explores along the shelf to discover hydrocarbons.

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Wintershall Dea/Thor Oliversen

Explore and discover

Wintershall Dea has around 100 licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, making us one of the largest license holders in the country. With our team of geologists and geophysicists, we explore along the length of the shelf to uncover resources that we can turn into barrels.

With discoveries under our belt like Maria and Nova, which are now a producing fields, and Dvalin North, which will soon be producing barrels, we are adept at making our exploration activities come to life. New possibilities are emerging all the time – from our discoveries Bergknapp and Adriana/Sabina in the Norwegian Sea to the drilling opportunities in our licenses.

Norwegian Coast waves stones North Sea
Norwegian Coast waves stones North Sea

Wintershall Dea has more than 100 licenses on the Norwegian Shelf.

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Wintershall Dea/Thor Oliversen

Journey of Growth

Wintershall Dea is on a major growth journey in Norway, pursuing our goals organically and through business development.

As one of the largest license holders in Norway, we are aggressive in pursuing promising new exploration acreage in the Norwegian licensing rounds. We mainly explore for new fields in areas close to existing infrastructure where we already have interests, giving us the best chance of making discoveries, and turning them into producing fields.

At the same time, we are always on the lookout for opportunities to expand our production through judicious purchases and swap deals.. 

Since 2022, we have been one of the biggest companies in the new carbon storage business, securing some of the first licenses in the country. Our goal is to help European industry safely store carbon dioxide under the Norwegian Continental Shelf.