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New gas discovery in the Barents Sea

The "Polar Pioneer"

StatoilHydro has discovered gas in one of the northernmost license equity in the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea.

Location

The well was tested in a prospect called Arenaria by the Polar Pioneer drilling rig (photo). It is located north of the “Snohvit” gas field outside Finnmark in northern Norway. - The well was not formation tested and it is too early to tell if the gas can be produced, says Bente Fotland, exploration manager for licences in the far north, in a press-release from StatoilHydro this weekend.