Fossil energy – Norway
OMV (Norge), the Norwegian arm of Austrian company OMV, and its partners have made an oil discovery about 6km south of the Oselvar field in the southern North Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said the discovery has been made in the wildcat well 1/3-13, which is located in production licence 970.
Located near the Ipswich oil discovery and 300km south-west of Stavanger, well 1/3-13 was drilled using the Maersk Integrator drilling facility.