The huge Johan Sverdrup oilfield in Norway’s North Sea is already producing 350,000 barrels of oil per day, two months after coming on stream, a senior executive at Equinor, the operator of the giant oilfield, told Reuters on Tuesday. Production at Johan Sverdrup has increased to 350,000 bpd, Arne Sigve Nylund, Executive Vice President, Development & Production Norway, told Reuters. Three weeks after the oilfield was brought online on October 5, oil production totaled 200,000 bpd , and the field was getting ready to ship its first Sverdrup oil cargo to Asian customers. With the rise in production volumes to 350,000 bpd, Johan Sverdrup is now the largest producing oilfield in western Europe, pumping more than some of the most popular oilfields in the North Sea, including Troll and Ekofisk offshore Norway and Buzzard in the UK, Reuters notes. With expected resources of 2.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent, […]