Always with a view to separate its non-strategic activities for its "upstream" Total assigns those of its oil fields Valhall and Hod – whose group owns 15.7% respectively and 25% – located in the North Sea Norwegian. Transaction amount: $ 911 million, or 680 million euros.
"In the coming years, the group intends to maintain its level of investment in order to optimize its Norwegian oil and gas reserves," he said in a statement released Tuesday morning.
Note that Norway is the largest contributor to the production, with nearly 330,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe / d) produced in 2009.This production, which represents about 15% of the total group, from 35 fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in which Total holds a no fax pay day loans.
Began production in 1982, the Valhall oil field production has reached an average share for the group of approximately 8,000 boe / d in 2009. The Hod, in production since 1990, produced in 2009 an average of approximately 1,000 boe / d in proportion to the group.
Total currently holds interests in 77 licenses in Norway, including 15 as an operator.
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