挪威主要石油公司 Equinor ASA 的一位高管 11 月 29 日表示，计划明年在北欧国家附近钻探 25 口勘探井，而今年为 22 口，其中大部分位于北海。

Equinor 挪威勘探和生产负责人 Jez Averty 在一次能源会议间隙告诉路透社，挪威和巴伦支海将分别钻探“少量”油井。

由于俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司的天然气流量下降，Equinor 已成为欧盟最大的天然气供应商。

阿弗蒂表示，Equinor 的重点是向欧洲提供尽可能多的天然气，但探索新气田是一个长期过程。

“我们听到来自欧洲的消息，它需要尽可能多的挪威天然气，我们将为此努力，但这需要时间，”他说。

Norwegian major Equinor ASA plans to drill 25 exploration wells off the Nordic country next year, compared with 22 wells this year, most of them in the North Sea, a senior executive said on Nov. 29.

A “small handful” of wells will be drilled in the Norwegian and the Barents Seas each, Jez Averty, Equinor’s head of exploration and production in Norway, told Reuters on the sidelines of an energy conference.

Equinor has become the EU’s largest gas supplier following a drop in gas flows from Russia’s Gazprom.

Equinor was focusing on providing as much gas as possible to Europe, but exploring for new gas fields was a long-term process, Averty said.

“We’ve heard a message from Europe that it needs as much Norwegian gas as possible, and we are going to work on that, but it takes time,” he said.