Equinor Energy AS has been granted consent by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to drill an exploration well in Block 34/4 (Statfjord kile prospect) in North Sea production license (PL) 057.
Well 34/4-17 S will be drilled by the Deepsea Stavanger in 360 m of water.
Equinor is operator at PL 057 (31%) with partners Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS (9.6%), Petoro AS (30%), Vår Energi AS (4.9%), and Wintershall Dea Norge AS (24.5%).
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
