The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/12-5 S.
The well will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling facility after concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6507/3-11 for E.ON E & P.
The area in the permit consists of parts of blocks 35/8 and 35/11.
The programme for the well relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 248.
Winterhsall Norge is the operator with an ownership interest of 60% while Petoro AS holds the other 40%.
The well will be drilled about 100km south west of Floro and about 20km north-west of the Fram field.
Production licence 248 was awarded in 1999 and this is the second wildcat to be drilled in the licence.
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