Danish Energy Agency approves Noreco’s acquisition of Shell’s Danish upstream assets

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Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) has announced that Danish Energy Agency has granted its approval for Noreco’s acquisition of Shell’s Danish upstream assets from Royal Dutch Shell plc.

Included in the acquisition are proven and probable (2P) reserves of 209 million barrels of oil equivalents (mmboe) based on an independent CPR assessment as per year-end 2017, of which 65% are liquids. The seller’s share of production from DUC in 2017 was 67 thousand barrels of oil equivalents per day (mboepd).

Following the approval, Noreco will work towards closing the acquisition by the end of May 2019.

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