Repsol green light for Darwin probe

Transocean Barents semisub

Lined up: Transocean Barents

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Steve Marshall

 15 January 2013 14:44 GMT

Repsol has secured a permit from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to drill a frontier wildcat at the Darwin prospect in the Barents Sea.

The Spanish explorer will use semi-submersible Transocean Barentsto drill the 7218/11-1 probe in its operated production licence 531, about 80 kilometres south-west of Statoil’s breakthrough Skrugard find.

Drilling is expected to start once the semisub has completed drilling for Maersk Oil at the Albert prospect in the Norwegian Sea that kicked off in early December and was expected to take 53 days.

Repsol holds a 20% operated stake in the licence with partners Concedo (20%), RWE Dea (15%), Talisman Energy (12.5%), Faroe Petroleum (12.5%), Det norske oljeselskap (10%) and Marathon Oil (10%).

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