Aasta Hansteen project manager Torolf Christensen, speaking to the press at the ONS conference in Stavanger, said the Norwegian state oil company will drill two wells on the field licence in 2015.

He said the prospects offer “some good potential and a good supplement, if we make a discovery, to the volumes and reserves that we have”.

Statoil hopes to enhance the overall return on the Nkr57 billion ($9.2