{"id":318905,"date":"2025-12-02T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/equinor-and-shell-form-adura-a-new-north-sea-production-benchmark\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:46:54","slug":"equinor-and-shell-form-adura-a-new-north-sea-production-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/equinor-and-shell-form-adura-a-new-north-sea-production-benchmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinor and Shell form Adura, a new North Sea production benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK energy industry is entering a new phase following the merger of the offshore operations of <strong>Equinor <\/strong>and <strong>Shell<\/strong>, which has resulted in the formation of <strong>Adura<\/strong>, a joint venture company that is set to become the largest independent oil and gas producer in the North Sea.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adura, a strategic player based in Aberdeen<\/h2>\n\n<p>Based in Aberdeen, <em>Adura <\/em>inherits the combined experience of two industry giants, managing a portfolio of assets comprising projects such as <strong>Mariner<\/strong>, <strong>Rosebank<\/strong>, <strong>Buzzard <\/strong>and <strong>Shearwater<\/strong>. In total, the new entity assumes stakes in 12 production assets and exploration licenses that strengthen its position in a mature, but still strategic basin for the country&#8217;s energy security. <\/p>\n\n<p>Projections are high: the joint venture is expected to reach production of more than 140,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2026, according to <strong>Wood Mackenzie<\/strong>. Such a figure would make the company the leading producer in the British North Sea. <\/p>\n\n<p>Neil McCulloch, appointed as the company&#8217;s CEO, brings more than three decades of industry experience. Under his leadership, the company integrated some 1,200 employees from Equinor and Shell, ensuring the transfer of accumulated technical and operational knowledge. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Both companies will retain strategic assets<\/strong> outside the new company. Equinor will maintain its cross-border projects and its offshore wind portfolio. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/equinor-wins-us-offshore-wind-lease\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"64691\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offshore wind portfolio<\/a><\/strong>while Shell will continue to operate onshore and offshore infrastructure in other parts of the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n\n<p>The initiative is aimed at optimizing costs, improving operating efficiency and generating sustained value from resources that, although they come from a mature basin, continue to be essential for the national energy matrix.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source and photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equinor.com\/news\/20251201-equinor-and-shell-complete-formation-of-adura\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Equinor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new alliance promotes the adaptation of the upstream sector to market challenges and the energy transition in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8404,"featured_media":318821,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13036],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-318905","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-oil-and-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/318905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/318905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=318905"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=318905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}