Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given Shell permission to take over the Knarr and Gaupe fields, as part of the major's take over of the two field's former operator BG Group.
Gaupe is an oil and gas field close to the boundary with the UK shelf, around 12km south of Varg. The field, which is in 90m water depth, has been developed using two subsea wells. The well stream is taken to the Armada facility on the UK shelf.
BG received consent to use the seabed facilities and pipelines on 15 February 2012. Production began in March of that year.
Knarr is an oil field in the North Sea, around 50km north-east of Snorre. The field, which is in 410m water depth, has been developed using subsea wells and a floating production unit, Petrojarl Knarr FPSO.
Oil is loaded from the FPSO into tankers, while the gas is piped to St. Fergus in Scotland. BG received consent to use the production facility and seabed facilities on 3 November 2014. Production from the field began in March 2015.
