Statoil said it plans to present its development plan for its Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project offshore Norway tomorrow.
The Norwegian oil firm said previously it had chosen an unmanned wellhead platform for the development because a subsea concept would be too expensive.
It is planned that the unmanned platform would be controlled from the Oseberg field centre.
Statoil’s partners in Oseberg are Norwegian state-owned firm Petoro with 33.6%, Total with 14.7% and ConocoPhillips with 2.4%.