"We will together with our partners consider tie-back of this discovery to Irpa, for which we recently submitted a plan for development and operation," says Grete B. Haaland, Equinor's senior vice president for Exploration and Production North. Following a major upgrade of the platform and the floating storage and offloading vessel, Equinor and its partners are now ready to produce oil and gas from the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea for another 20 years, after the field resumed operations at the end of December. Vår Energi has announced a new gas discovery in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. The discovery is preliminarily evaluated at 57-132 million barrels of oil equivalent and has the potential to contribute to the future gas supply from the Barents Sea. The first LNG cargo arrived in early January at Germany's LNG new terminal in Wilhelmshaven which was inaugurated at the end of December.