Tullow Oil Norge (TONAS) has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well in Block 16/5 in the North Sea.
The well will be drilled in a prospect named Rome, with the designation 16/5-6. It is located around 37km southeast of the Edvard Grieg field.
Drilling is scheduled to begin in June at the earliest and estimated to last 30 days, depending on whether a discovery is made.
Drilling will be performed using Borgland Dolphin, which is a semisubmersible mobile drilling facility of the Aker H-3 type. The facility is owned by Fred. Olsen Energy and operated by Dolphin Drilling. It was built as a flotel in 1977 and refitted/upgraded into a drilling facility in 1999.
Borgland Dolphin received acknowledgement of compliance (AoC) from the PSA in September 2004.
TONAS is the operator for production license 776 in the North Sea.