Equinor has secured a permit from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) to drill a wildcat well in the Barents Sea.
The permit is for wellbore 7220/5-EC-2 H in production license 532.
The license is operated by Equinor with 46.3%, with partners Vår Energi holding 30% and Petoro the remaining 23.7%.
The drilling operation will be done using Transocean’s Transocean Enabler rig.
Transocean Enabler is a semi-submersible rig of CAT D (GVA 4000 NCS) type, built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea in 2016.
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