SLB and Vår Energi expand digital oilfield development collaboration in Norway

SLB and Vår Energi are expanding their cooperation to roll out digital well planning and integrated field development planning solutions across their operations on the Norwegian continental shelf. The two parties previously reduced the cycle time for collaborative well planning from months to days, and this expanded deployment is expected to bring similar benefits to integrated field development planning, aiming to support operators in managing increasingly complex development work while maintaining production from mature offshore assets.

Vår Energi is deploying SLB’s Delfi digital platform to connect exploration, subsurface evaluation, well planning, subsea design, field development planning and production in a cloud-native environment. According to SLB, this approach—which enables teams to work in parallel using shared data and standardized workflows—reduces handovers and rework, supporting more consistent and timely decisions from early evaluation through development planning.

Rakesh Jaggi, President of Digital at SLB, noted that as offshore development becomes more complex, performance depends more and more on teams’ ability to quickly coordinate, evaluate options and make decisions using trusted data. By integrating different disciplines in a comprehensive digital environment, operators can shorten planning cycles and increase the speed and quality of decisions needed to advance opportunities such as marginal subsea tiebacks.

This expanded cooperation reflects a shift towards cloud-based planning methods, aiming to help operators shorten the time between key development milestones, improve cross-disciplinary coordination, and maximize value from existing resources in mature basins. Standardized, integrated workflows are seen as enabling parallel, cross-disciplinary work, reducing handovers and rework, while improving the basis for timely decisions on mature offshore assets.

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