Report Summary

Norne is located in blocks 6608/10 and 6608/11 in the Nordland II area on the Norwegian continental shelf at a distance of 85 kilometers from Heidrun Field. Norne is an offshore oil and gas field discovered in 1992 by StatoilHydro ASA. Water depth of the field varies between 370 to 390 meters.

Statoil Hydro is the operator of Norne since 1997 and holds 39.1% equity stake. Other partners of the field are Petoro AS (54%) and Eni Norge AS (6.9%).

The field reservoir contains medium density, sweet (low sulphur) and waxy crude oil with an average specific gravity of around 32.7° API.

Norne produced 13.9 million barrels of crude oil and 6.4 billion cubic feet of gas during 2009. The cumulative production till 2009 is 520 million barrels of oil and 214 billion cubic feet of gas. Peak production from the field was 71 million barrels of oil in 2001. It was initially estimated to produce 220,000 barrels of oil per day.
The field life of Norne is expected to be around 20 to 24 years with complete abandonment during 2020. The field is expected to generate $4.4 billions in revenues (undiscounted) during its remaining life (starting from 01/01/2010) and is expected to yield an IRR of around 14.19%.

Scope

• The report provides detailed information on oil and gas production, infrastructure, reserves, geology, operator and equity partners and the latest fiscal terms applicable to the asset and provides its fair value (Remaining Net Present Value) based on remaining reserves, forecast production, capital and operational costs, fiscal regime and commodity prices.
• The report also provides additional valuation parameters like Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Profitability Index (PI), Pay Back (discounted and undiscounted), Entitlement Production (EP) and Working Interest (WI) to enhance your decision making process.
• This report provides detailed sensitivity analysis of the remaining NPV with changes in the commodity prices, discount rate, production and key fiscal terms.
• Detailed cash flows over the life of the asset are included in the report. These cash flows cover a wide range of calculations related to various payments to the government/licensing authority.
• Interactive Excel models can be used to derive custom valuations, sensitivities and cash flows based on the specific inputs by the user in the model. These custom inputs vary from production data, cost information, price information and fiscal terms information.

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