UK-based basement explorer Hurricane Energy is a step closer to developing its UK North Sea Lancaster field after the Oil and Gas Authority agreed to the company's request for a field determination area for it.
The field was granted discovery oil field status as oil field number 572. Hurricane says: "This represents the first step in progressing the submission of the Lancaster early production system (EPS) field development plan (FDP).
Dr Robert Trice, Hurricane's CEO, said: "I'm delighted that the Oil and Gas Authority has granted Lancaster oil field status which is an important step in progressing to first oil from Lancaster. Furthermore, the granting of oil field status for Lancaster helps the partitioning of Hurricane's other discoveries and prospects that sit within Licence P1368."
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