Bjørn Asle Teige (left), employee representative and leader of SAFE in Equinor, and Per Martin Labråthen, employee representative and leader of Industri Energi in Equinor. (Photo: Gisle Ledel Johannessen)
“We have had both good and demanding discussions on this project, especially on the operational reorganization. Our requirement is that safety is given top priority,” continues Teige.
“Jobs on the NCS are highly profitable and important to Norway, so this is a good decision for us,” says Per Martin Labråthen, employee representative and leader of Industri Energi in Equinor.
“It is good social economics to utilize the NCS infrastructure we have invested in, to make optimal use of the Norwegian community’s resources. This is something our people on the NCS focus on every single day. However, we must meet the climate challenge and work even harder to reduce emissions from our production. This will be more important for the petroleum industry going forward,” continues Labråthen.
The new Statfjord effort includes a plan for keeping CO2 emissions as low as possible through the late life period, to ensure that Statfjord is operating well within the limit of Equinor’s new NCS climate ambition.
During the next five years, CO2 emissions per produced barrel from the field will be halved due to higher production, compared to ending the production earlier. Several operational measures for increased energy efficiency have been identified to maintain a constant level of energy consumption, in a period with increasing activity level.
Towards 2030, Equinor will realise energy efficiency measures and consolidate infrastructure to reduce absolute emissions from Statfjord by more than 40 percent. This means that climate emissions from Statfjord is aligned with Equinors new climate ambition for the NCS, to reduce absolute emissions in Norway by 40 percent within 2030, 70 percent by 2040 and close to zero by 2050.
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