Aiming for oil, Statoil strikes gas in Barents Sea well

Norway’s Statoil has made a small, non-commercial, gas discovery in the Gemini North well, northeast of the Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea. The well also proved oil, Statoil said. “The well was drilled with the ambition of proving up additional oil resources in the vicinity of the Wisting discovery, but like the previous Blåmann well, […]

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