NPD grants StatoilHydro wellbore 2/5-13 permit

Sept. 11, 2008
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted a drilling permit to StatoilHydro Petroleum AS for wellbore 2/5-13.

Offshore staff

STAVANGER -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted a drilling permit to StatoilHydro Petroleum AS for wellbore 2/5-13.

Wellbore 2/5-13 will be drilled from theWest Epsilon drilling facility. The drilling program for wellbore 2/5-13 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production license 265.

The area in the license consists of parts of block 2/5 and all of block 2/6 in the southern North Sea, northeast of the Ekofisk area.

09/11/2008