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  <h1>Duster in the B prospect</h1> 
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    <div class="date-module"> <span class="date_module-icon fa fa-calendar"></span> <span>September 18, 2001, 14:30 CEST</span> 
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     <p>Statoil has finished drilling exploration well 24/12-4 near the <a href="http://www.statoil.com/STATOILCOM/SVG00990.nsf/8e578f621d4815a9002568200039f99b/af1b23d804bb0fb441256657004f8594!OpenDocument"> Sleipner area</a> in the North Sea without finding oil or gas.</p> 
     <p>The B prospect lies in block 24/12 of production licence 204, which was awarded in 1996. One well has previously been drilled in the block. On that occasion small amounts of oil were proven.</p> 
     <p>Morten Sola, acting sector manager in the unit new areas North Sea reports that the well has provided useful information about the area:</p> 
     <p>“We will now consider further activity in light of the results from this well and the find that was made in the previous one.”</p> 
     <p>Licence 204, which consists of blocks 24/9, 11 and 12, lies halfway between the Statoil-operated Sleipner fields and TotalFinaElf’s Frigg field on the border with the British continental shelf.</p> 
     <p>Operator Statoil has a 35 per cent stake. The state’s direct financial interest has 30 per cent, whilst the other licensees are Amerada Hess (20 per cent) and Enterprise Oil (15 per cent).</p> 
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