Tuesday 24 April 2018

Aker BP is the operator for production licence 659 in the Barents Sea. We have now given the company consent to drill appraisal well 7222/10-1, around 65 kilometres north-north-east of the Snøhvit field. The objective of the drilling is to appraise discovery 72221/12-1 ("Svanfjell").

The planned start-up is May 2018.

The drilling location's geographical coordinates will be:

72° 06' 34.4121" N

22° 10' 36.3818" E

Water depth at the site is 357 metres.

The well is to be drilled by the Deepsea Stavanger mobile drilling facility.

Deepsea Stavanger is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the GVA 7500 type, built in South Korea in 2010. It is owned and operated by Odfjell Drilling. We issued Deepsea Stavanger with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) on 16 March 2017.