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The
deal involves a transfer of about 300 staff and means that the
world's largest listed oil firm will no longer operate producing
fields on the Norwegian continental shelf.
Exxon Mobil retains stakes in more than 20 producing fields
operated by Statoil <STL.OL> and Shell <RDSa.L> however,
including the Snorre oilfield and the major Ormen Lange gas
field.
The fields sold had daily output of 54,000 barrels of oil
equivalents in 2016, while Exxon's remaining Norwegian stakes
yielded about 170,000 barrels per day, a company spokesman said.
Point Resources, which is majority owned by HitecVision, will
have output of about 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent following
the deal, which could grow to about 80,000 barrels in 2022, the
company said in a separate statement.
(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis and Terje Solsvik, editing by
Louise Heavens)
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