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Statoil to drill 4 new prospects in the Skrugard area (2012-05-13)
Statoil ASA, together with partners Eni Norway and Petoro have established a plan for further drilling in the Skrugard area. The exploration campaign will include four new prospects and is scheduled to begin at the end of 2012.
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Exploration week 19 (2012-05-13)
Albert, Cooper and Karpe and Svarthå prospects are spudded since last week's update
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Professor Martin Landrø writes about CO2 storage in today's Dagens Næringsliv (2012-05-11)
In today's issue he discusses the possibility of leakage from reservoirs used for storage of CO2.
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"Smart ater" improves oil recovery (2012-05-10)
-By injecting water with a different chemical composition than the formation water, there may be an opportunity to remove some of the organic matter bound to minerals. We have a lot of experience from among others the Ekofisk field, says Professor Tor Austad at the University of Stavanger.
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Statoil delivers record accounts (2012-05-08)
Statoil delivers a surplus of 59.2 billion NOK for the first quarter, a record. Never has the oil company delivered better numbers in a quarterly report than the one presented today.
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Statoil is investing in Russia (2012-05-06)
Statoil chief executive Helge Lund Saturday signed a cooperation agreement with the partly state owned oil company Rosneft. The agreement opens the door for Statoil on the Russian shelf and Rosneft on the Norwegian continental shelf
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Exploration week 18 (2012-05-06)
Det norske failed at Storebjørn and Lundin has gotten confirmations of the Sverdrup Field through successful delineation wells. Now the Bredford Dolphin is moving the the Albert prospect
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Successful verdure appraisal (2012-05-04)
Lundin Norway and partners are doing to end appraisal wells 16/2-11 and 16/2-11, located in PL501. This is an appraisal of the much-talked Johan Sverdrup discovery 16/2-6, which was discovered in the autumn of 2010 in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks. The wells 16/2-11 and 16/2-11 A was drilled approximately 3.3 kilometers southwest of the discovery well 16/2-6, according to NPD.
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Dry well at Storebjørn (2012-05-02)
Det norske has drilled dry at Storebjørn, and have plugged and abandoned the well
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Statoil supports University of Bergen (2012-05-01)
Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR) is the only Norwegian Center of Excellence (SFF) in petroleum research. At the end of 2012 the funding for SFF at CIPR is ending. Statoil is interested in ensuring a continuation and have now signed up a further 11.4 million allocated to the University of Bergen.
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