Spirit Energy and the license partners have agreed to drill four new wells on Statfjord Øst. Planned start-up is in the spring of 2023, and the rig COSLPromoter has been hired to drill the wells.

Spirit Energy and partners have successfully completed appraisal drilling on the Lille Prinsen discovery on the Utsira High in the Norwegian North Sea. According to the operator the two wells have confirmed a gross resource range of 12–60 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe).

Spirit Energy and its partners have completed a test programme and drilled an appraisal sidetrack well at the Bergknapp oil discovery well in the Norwegian Sea. The operator reports total recoverable resources between 40 and 84 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe). 

Planning for the decommissioning of a North Sea field which has exceeded its expected life sevenfold is now underway.

Spirit Energy has found more gas at Grove, penetrating an undrained part of the North East area of the field. As a result, the life of the Grove field could be significantly extended.  

Spirit Energy has received consents from the Petroleum Safety Authority and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for extended use of the facilities on the Vale field.

Spirit Energy has together with three other oil companies selected a concept for developing six discoveries in a joint unitisation project on Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea.

An export route has been confirmed for Spirit Energy's Pegasus West discovery following the farm-down of a 38.75% stake to Neptune Energy

Spirit Energy and its Oda licence partners have approved an infill well at the Oda field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea.