据路透社1月14日奥斯陆报道,挪国油14日在奥斯陆表示,挪油日前交还了其4份格陵兰岛海上油气勘探许可证中的3份,这是能源公司在油价最近暴跌以后削减成本的又一个例子。
挪油早些时候曾表示,该公司将减缓其在北极的勘探努力来控制资本支出。北极地区是挪油优先考虑投资的地区之一。挪油拥有从格陵兰岛到俄罗斯的北极许可证。
英国凯恩能源公司迄今一直是格陵兰岛的最大勘探公司,但是,该公司8口井耗资12亿美元的钻井活动在2010年和2011年没有获得任何商业发现。
挪油在去年年底前交还了3份格陵兰岛西部海上的油气勘探许可证,但挪油保留了格陵兰岛东部海上的一份油气勘探许可证,因为钻井的截止时间更长。
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Statoil hands back three Greenland exploration licenses
OSLO Jan 14 (Reuters) - Norway's Statoil handed back three out of its four Greenland offshore oil and gas exploration licenses, it said on Wednesday, in yet another sign of cost cuts by energy firms following the recent plunge in oil prices.
Statoil earlier said that it would slow its Arctic exploration efforts, one of its priority areas, to control capital spending. Statoil has Arctic licences from Greenland to Russia.
Britain's Cairn Energy has been the biggest explorer in Greenland so far but its eight-well, $1.2 billion campaign in 2010 and 2011 yielded no commercial finds.
Statoil's three licenses off the west coast of Greenland were handed back by the end of 2014, but the company kept one license off the island's east coast where the deadline for drilling is longer.