Norway’s Aker BP is looking to boost its gas output ahead of absorbing Lundin Energy’s oil-dominated upstream business, including a stake in the Johan Sverdrup field, with a switch to gas underway at the Skarv field and additional gas projects ahead, it said April 28. In a results statement, the company, which has engineering firm Aker and BP as its largest shareholders, said its overall production in the first quarter had fallen 6% year on year to 208,000 b/d of oil equivalent, but its gas sales had risen 12% to 45,000 boe/d, largely due to a change of focus at the Skarv field driven by Europe’s gas crisis.
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