Hurricane Energy is pressing ahead with a drilling programme it hopes will prove up more barrels in the vicinity of its Lancaster oilfield, while also preparing to submit within weeks a development plan to UK authorities for an early production system (EPS) at Lancaster itself.

In its exploration programme at the UK West of Shetland acreage, Hurricane is hopeful of being able to prove connections between the Lancaster licence and the Lincoln analogue, currently being drilled nine kilometres away, to the recently-awarded licence that contains the Halifax prospect, to the north-east.

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