The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given Statoil consent to use the Stena Don mobile drilling facility for drilling and completion of wells 35/11-B-22 and B-13 in the Fram field in the North Sea.
Fram is an oil field in the northern North Sea around 20km north of Troll. Water depth in the area is around 350m.
Stena Don is operated by Stena Drilling, and is a Sonat/Hitachi-designed, semisubmersible drilling facility, built in 2001. The facility received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in March 2002.