Lundin Petroleum

Lundin Petroleum AB
Publicly traded Aktiebolag
Traded as OMX: LUPE
Industry Petroleum
Founded 2001 (2001)
Founder Adolf H. Lundin
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
Key people
 Ashley Heppenstall (President and CEO), Ian H. Lundin (Chairman)
Revenue US $798.6 million (2010)[1]
US $393.9 million (2010)[1]
Profit US $511.9 million (2010)[1]
Total assets US $2.429 billion (end 2010)[1]
Total equity US $997.8 million (end 2010)[1]
Number of employees
 420 (end 2010)[1]
Website www.lundin-petroleum.com

Lundin Petroleum is an independent international petroleum company formed in 2001 and based in Sweden.

History

The company was formed in 2002 following the takeover of Lundin Oil AB by Canadian independent Talisman Energy, Lundin Petroleum AB is a Swedish oil company traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. In the summer of 2003, Lundin Petroleum sold its working interest in Block 5A to Petronas Carigali for USD 142.5 million. In 1998 the company discovered the En Naga North and West field in southern part of the Sirte Basin, Libya. After a successful appraisal program in 1998 and 1999 the field was declared. The commercial and development program commenced. Development included the construction of a central production facility, 100 km pipeline together with the drilling of 20 production, 15 injector and 15 water supply wells. Recoverable reserves were estimated to be approximately 100 mmbbls. In Tunisia, the Oudna field development (Lundin Petroleum 40% working interest) was successfully completed and production commenced in November 2006.[2]

In April 2010 it demerged its assets on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf into Petrofac's Energy Developments unit to form the stand-alone company EnQuest.

In February 2015, it has started drilling exploration well 16/1-24, located in the Gemini prospect of the North Sea. The well is located in PL338C south-west of the Edvard Grieg field, offshore Norway. It will test the reservoir properties and hydrocarbon potential of Lower Paleocene aged sandstones of the Ty Formation. The Gemini prospect is estimated to contain unrisked, gross prospective resources of 93 million barrels of oil equivalent (Mmboe). The Island Innovator semi-submersible drilling rig will be used to drill the well to a planned total depth of 2,192m below mean sea level.[3][4]

Leadership

Founder Adolf H. Lundin has founded also Lundin Mining in 1994.[5] In June 2015, Alex Schneiter was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, effective October 2015.[6]

Criticism

In her book Affärer i blod och olja: Lundin Petroleum i Afrika[7] (Business in blood and oil: Lundin Petroleum in Africa) journalist Kerstin Lundell claims that the company had been complicit in several crimes against humanity, including death shootings and the burning of villages.[8]

In June 2010, ECOS (European Coalition on Oil in Sudan) published the report Unpaid Debt, which called upon the governments of Sweden, Austria and Malaysia to look into allegations that the companies Lundin, OMV and Petronas had broken international law whilst operating in Sudan during the period 1997-2003.[9][10]

Criticism has also been directed towards Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt, a former board member for the company, with oppositional voices questioning his suitability as foreign minister.[11][12]

Ethiopia arrested two Swedish journalist Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye and held them for 14 months before the release. Conflict Ethiopian Judicial Authority v Swedish journalists 2011 was caused as the journalist studied the human rights violation claims in Ogaden by an oil explorer in a case connected to Lundin Petroleum.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Annual Report 2010" (PDF). Lundin Petroleum. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  2. ↑ "Annual Report 2006" (PDF). Lundin Petroleum. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  3. ↑ "Lundin Petroleum starts 16/1-24 exploration well drilling on Gemini prospect".
  4. ↑ "Lundin spuds test well in offshore Norway Gemini prospect". Petro Global News. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  5. ↑ Company History Lunding mining. Investors
  6. ↑ "Alex Schneiter appointed as President and CEO of Lundin Petroleum". GlobeNewsWire. GlobeNewsWire.
  7. ↑ Järtelius, Arne. "Blod och olja". Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  8. ↑ Lundell, Kerstin (2010). "Tystnadens triumf" (2). Ordfront Magazine.
  9. ↑ "UNPAID DEBT The Legacy of Lundin, Petronas and OMV in Sudan, 1997-2003" (PDF). European Coalition on Oil in Sudan. June 8, 2010. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  10. ↑ Sudan Oilgate article on IPS
  11. ↑ PM Nilsson, "Bildt måste gå", Expressen, 11 January 2007 (Swedish).
  12. ↑ Fredrik Malm, "Bildt måste byta politik eller avgå", Expressen, 15 January 2007 (Swedish).
  13. ↑ Reporters Without Borders hails Swedish journalists’ release Reporters Without Borders 10 September 2012

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