Enerquill Advisory · Research Work with us
Screening universe › Gas-weighted › BNOR

BlueNord (BNOR · Oslo)

Gas-weighted — HQ Norway. Oil & gas valuation, proved reserves, production, break-even, net-asset-value and jurisdiction-risk screen.
Category Gas-weightedRegion EuropeCEO Euan Shirlaw (2023)Jurisdiction risk Low (5)

Overview

BlueNord is a pure-play upstream E&P holding ~36.8% of the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC), operated by TotalEnergies, whose centrepiece is the redeveloped Tyra gas hub (Tyra II) that came back on stream in 2024. The restart drove record production in 2025 and a step-change in free cash flow, funding deleveraging and outsized dividends.

In 2026 Var Energi agreed to acquire BlueNord for roughly NOK 12.8bn, a transaction expected to consolidate the Danish North Sea position and likely remove BlueNord from the Oslo exchange. Investors should treat the equity primarily as a deal/completion play rather than a standalone growth story.

Valuation snapshot (FY2025)

Market cap
$1.4bn
Enterprise value
$2.4bn
EV / EBITDA
4.5x
P / E
13.0x
FCF yield
25.9%
Dividend yield
32.0%
ROACE
15%
Debt / equity
139%
Net debt / EBITDA
1.8x
EV / reserves
$26.22/boe
EV / flowing
$64k/boe/d
Free cash flow
$0.4bn

Its EV/EBITDA of 4.5x is below the 5.9x median across the 142-company universe, the free-cash-flow yield of 25.9% is higher than the 6.5% median, and at $26.22/boe of proved reserves it is richer than the $13.51/boe median.

On a balanced screen across the universe, BlueNord scores 56/100, strongest on valuation (68/100). Sub-scores: value 68, quality 48, growth 41, risk 48 (higher = riskier).

Reserves & production

BlueNord holds approximately 0.09 billion boe of proved (1P) reserves with FY2025 production of about 37 thousand boe/d (56% liquids), a reserve life of roughly 6.7 years. Break-even: ~$35 (Brent FCF breakeven) — Low-cost Danish North Sea barrels post Tyra II restart; strong free cash flow generation at mid-cycle Brent supports rapid deleveraging and large shareholder distributions.

Net asset value (public-source)

For BlueNord, no SEC standardized measure is disclosed (non-US filer or listed NOC), so a public-source proved-NAV floor is not computable from US filings. See the interactive screener's NAV tab for peers where an SEC figure exists.

Jurisdiction risk · production-weighted country risk

5 /100
Low jurisdiction risk
Production-weighted average of the country scores below (0 = safest, 100 = riskiest).
Country / regionProd. shareCountry riskKey jurisdiction risk
Denmark100%5Stable; North Sea decommissioning, 2050 production phase-out.
How this is scored. Each country's risk (0–100) is anchored to two named public indices — the OECD Country Risk Classification (0–7 official export-credit country risk) and the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (Political Stability & Absence of Violence percentile) — blended 55/45 and rescaled to 0–100. A company's jurisdiction risk is the production-weighted average across the countries where it operates. This is a pure country measure, kept separate from company & financial risk (leverage, governance). Source: OECD Country Risk Classification (CRC) as of 24 July 2025, sourced via the German Federal Export Credit Guarantees (exportkreditgarantien.de) which applies the OECD consensus country risk category directly (values 0-7; 0 = lowest risk). High-income OECD members are not individually rated by the OECD and are set to crc=0 per the model spec (US, UK, Norway, Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ, and most of Europe incl. OECD members Israel, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Lithuania, Ireland). 'ps' = World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 'Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism' percentile rank, latest available (2023 vintage), 0-100 with higher = more stable; ps values are best sourced estimates rounded to the WGI percentile scale. Yemen not on OECD list ('./.') so crc estimated at 7. Iraq-Kurdistan and Falklands are non-standard model rows using judgment, not official OECD entries..

Need this for a live deal on BNOR?

Enerquill Advisory provides asset valuation, petroleum fiscal modelling and risk analysis for oil, gas and LNG transactions — including bespoke, deal-specific NAV and acquirer–target screens that go well beyond this public data.

Work with us →About Enerquill

Key assets & projects

AssetLocationTypeNotes
Tyra IIDenmarkGas hub redevelopmentRestarted 2024; central processing/export hub for DUC gas
TyraDenmarkGas/condensate fieldCore gas field feeding the Tyra hub
HalfdanDenmarkOil/gas fieldLargest DUC producing field
DanDenmarkOil fieldMature DUC oil field
GormDenmarkOil fieldMature DUC oil field
Roar/ValdemarDenmarkGas/condensate satellitesDUC satellite fields tied back to hub
SkjoldDenmarkOil fieldMature DUC oil field

Five-year trend (FY2021–FY2025)

Metric20212022202320242025
Production (mboe/d)3030273737
Proved reserves (bnboe)0.160.180.200.210.09
Revenue ($bn)0.71.31.00.91.0
EBITDA ($bn)0.51.00.70.60.5
Net income ($bn)0.10.30.10.10.1
Free cash flow ($bn)-0.20.1-0.30.30.4

Get the BNOR one-page tearsheet (PDF)

Enter your email and we'll open a print-ready one-page tearsheet for BlueNord — and add you to the monthly oil & gas valuation screen.

Peer companies — Gas-weighted

NVTK · NovatekEQT · EQT CorporationEXE · Expand EnergyTOU · Tourmaline OilARX · ARC ResourcesAR · Antero ResourcesRRC · Range ResourcesENEV3 · Eneva S.A.NWMD · NewMed EnergyCNX · CNX Resources CorporationCRK · Comstock Resources, Inc.PEY · Peyto Exploration & Development Corp.BKV · BKV CorporationGPOR · Gulfport Energy Corporation

Sources

✓ FY2025 figures verified against primary sources:

↗ Compare BNOR against 141 peers in the interactive screener

Disclaimer. Screening research only — a starting point, not investment or transactional advice. Figures are drawn from public sources (~mid-2026), may contain errors, and require independent due diligence before any decision.
Enerquill Advisory. Data compiled from company FY2025 filings and results releases; market data ~mid-2026. Larger names are verified against primary sources (shown on each page); smaller names are best-estimates pending verification. © Enerquill Advisory. enerquilladvisory.com