Faroe Petroleum plc, an independent oil and gas company, engages in the exploration, appraisal, development, and production of oil and gas fields in Northwest Europe. It has interests in six principal producing oil and gas fields in the United Kingdom and Norway, including interests in the Schooner and Ketch gas fields, and the Blane oil field in the United Kingdom; and interests in the producing Njord, Brage, and Ringhorne East fields in Norway. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Aberdeen, the United Kingdom.