The company posted a quarterly net income of Nkr13.7 billion (US$2.33 billion), compared to Nkr14.5 billion for the same three-month period last year.
Statoil also attributed this drop to non-recurring items, related tax effects and a higher gain from the sale of assets in 2012.
However, this was still a vast improvement from the Nkr4.3 billion recorded in the 2013 second quarter, which the company had blamed on lower liquids and gas prices and weaker trading results.
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