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Norway asks Supreme Court to revive permits for North Sea oilfields
The case challenges licenses for the Breidablikk, Yggdrasil, and Tyrving fields, after an appeal last year left the state with a six month fix requirement for assessment gaps.
Norway’s government has asked the Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings that invalidated development permits for three new oilfields in the North Sea, according to OilPrice.
The litigation, filed by environmental groups Greenpeace Nordic and Nature og Ungdom, targets administrative decisions by Norway’s Energy Ministry that approved the development and operation plans for Breidablikk, Yggdrasil, and Tyrving.
Breidablikk, operated by Equinor, and Yggdrasil, developed and operated by Aker BP, are already producing oil and gas, while Tyrving, also an Aker BP project, is expected to start up later in 2026.
The campaigners argued Norwegian authorities granted licenses without accounting for Scope 3 emissions from customers burning the fuel, and in November 2025 the government lost an appeal to reverse the invalidations, though the court of appeal allowed production to continue and gave Norway six months to correct assessment shortcomings, with the Office of the Attorney General saying additional assessments of foreign emissions now meet requirements, as carried by Reuters.