About

Total E&P Norge was created in 1999 from a merger of Total, Fina and Elf. Today it contributes approximately 12% of Total Group’s entire oil and gas production. Heading a legal team of six is legal manager Arild Kvanvik Jørgensen. He has been involved in structuring and negotiating a number of contracts for off shore oil and gas developments, including the Martin Linge field. In 2015, the company sold a 15% interest in the Gina Krog field to Tellus Petroleum, a subsidiary of Sequa Petroleum in a deal worth NOK 1.4bn. On describing the challenge to Total E&P Norge’s legal team posed by the reduced price of oil and gas, Jørgensen says it ‘creates more tension in the industry and thus more legal work, which means we need to work more efficiently to do more with fewer resources and to constantly share information’.