Aker BP ASA has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to drill in the North Sea.
Exploration well 25/2-24 S will be drilled in production license 873 by the Scarabeo 8 drilling rig.
Aker BP is operator of the license (47.7%) with partners Equinor Energy AS (40%) and LOTOS Exploration and Production Norge AS (12.3%).
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Alex Procyk
Upstream Editor
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).
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