An independent oil and gas company
Turning marginal and challenging fields into a commercial success has been a cornerstone of Maersk Oil’s business since our company was founded in 1962.
We developed groundbreaking technologies while working with tight chalk reservoirs in the Danish North Sea, and enabled Denmark to become an oil and gas producing country. Later, these technologies were deployed around the globe allowing us to become a truly global player in the upstream business.
Maersk Oil is now producing oil from the Danish and UK sections of the North Sea, Qatar, Algeria and Kazakhstan. It conducts exploration activities in those areas as well as offshore Norway, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and Angola.
Focus and growth
We will grow our reserves base by deploying and further developing our technologies in already known geographical areas like the North Sea. At the same time we will make technological step-outs enabling us to master new technologies such as deepwater operation and Enhanced Oil Recovery. This combination ensures that we keep our leading position in our core countries and also create opportunities in new areas such as West Africa and the US Gulf of Mexico.