ConocoPhillips, Statoil and Total have joined forces to collectively develop three oil and gas discoveries in the Greater Ekofisk area of the Norwegian North Sea.

Upstream understands that licence partners in the Conoco­Phillips-operated Tor 2 and Tommeliten Alpha projects and Norwegian giant Statoil’s King Lear and Julius prospects have put together a team to study the possibility of a joint project under the name Greater Ekofisk Area.