Norwegian multinational Equinor has made an oil and gas discovery close to the Troll field in the North Sea, the company announced on Thursday.
This marks the seventh discovery in the area, with an estimate between 17 and 47 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.
The latest discovery, named Rover Sor, follows the six previous discoveries the company has made since 2019: Echino Sor in 2019, Swisher in 2020, Rover Nord and Blasto in 2021, and Toppand and Kveikje in 2022.
Equinor acknowledged uncertainty as to the size of the discoveries, but an average of the various estimates gives a total volume of around 350 million barrels of oil equivalent, corresponding to a medium-sized Norwegian oil or gas field, and the size of the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea.
Equinor is operator of the production license and partners with DNO, Wellesley Petroleum, and Petoro.
