Wellesley Petroleum granted North Sea drilling permit

Feb. 21, 2023
Wellesley Petroleum AS has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to drill in the North Sea.

Wellesley Petroleum AS has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to drill in the North Sea.

Exploration well 35/10-10 S will be drilled in production license 1148 by the Deepsea Yantai drilling rig.

Wellesley Petroleum is operator of the license (50%) with partners DNO Norge AS (30%), Aker BP ASA (10%), and Equinor Energy AS (10%). 

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Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).