By Dominic Chopping

Norway's Statoil ASA (STO) said Tuesday it has started drilling the first of 35 wells to be drilled in the first phase of the Johan Sverdrup field development.

The Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig is currently predrilling the first production well. Predrilling allows the production capacity on the field to be utilised as efficiently as possible when Johan Sverdrup comes on stream late in 2019, it said.

In 2018 the permanent Johan Sverdrup drilling platform will be installed.

-Write to Dominic Chopping at dominic.chopping@wsj.com; Twitter: @domchopping @WSJNordics

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

March 01, 2016 03:29 ET (08:29 GMT)

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