The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has given Statoil consent to use the West Epsilon jackup drilling facility for permanent plugging of wells at Huldra 30/2-A, in production license 051.
Statoil has allocated 215 days for the activity, which will start in Q2 2016. Water depth at the site is 125m.
West Epsilon, a jackup rig, is operated by North Atlantic Drilling, formerly known as Seadrill Offshore and was issued an acknowledgement of compliance (AoC) by the PSA for West Epsilon on 14 February 2003.