The Johan Sverdrup oil field (Sverdrup Field) is an oil field in the North Sea, about 140 km west of Stavanger, Norway.[1] The field lies in two different production licenses and consists of two different discoveries called Avaldsnes (where Aker BP is the operator) and Aldous Major South (where Statoil - now known as Equinor - is the operator). When it was revealed that these discoveries constituted a single field, it was renamed Johan Sverdrup after the father of Norwegian parliamentarism. The field has not yet been unitized between production licenses 501, 501B, and 265.[2] According to Statoil,[3] the field is in 110 to 120 metres water depth, and the reservoir is at 1,900 meters depth.
Field development
In March 2012, after the signing of a pre-unit agreement between the different licensees, Statoil (now Equinor) was appointed working operator.