LBE Longboat Energy Plc

By Dominic Chopping

Norwegian energy group Equinor ASA said Monday that it has made an oil and gas discovery close to the Troll and Fram fields in the North Sea.

As the operator of production license 293 B Equinor said, based on preliminary estimates, the size of the discovery is between 4 million and 8 million standard cubic meters of recoverable oil equivalent, or 25 million-50 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.

Temporarily called Kveikje, this is the sixth discovery in this area since the fall of 2019. Over 300 million barrels of oil equivalent were proven in the five former discoveries, it said.

"As we did with the other discoveries in this area, we will consider tying this discovery to the Troll B or C platform," Lill H. Brusdal, Equinor's vice president for the Troll area, said.

"By utilising the existing infrastructure, we will be able to recover these volumes at a low cost and with low emissions."

Equinor plans to drill another exploration well in the area this year, the company said.

The owners of license 293 B include Equinor with a 51% stake, DNO ASA with 29%, Idemitsu Kosan Co. with 10%, and Longboat Energy PLC with 10%.

Write to Dominic Chopping at dominic.chopping@wsj.com

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April 11, 2022 03:20 ET (07:20 GMT)

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