Norwegian oil and gas company StatoilHydro has claimed that it was the highest bidder on 23 leases in the central area lease sale in the US Gulf of Mexico.
The company has said that it will also embark on drilling program with two new rigs coming into the Gulf of Mexico in 2009.
Lease sale 208 is a part of the current schedule of the mineral management service (MMS) in New Orleans. A total of 56 companies participated in the sale. StatoilHydro’s winning bids are subject to review and final approval by the MMS which can take up to 90 days.
Oivind Reinertsen, head of StatoilHydro’s upstream activities in USA and Mexico, said: The bi-annual lease rounds in the US Gulf of Mexico are important arenas for StatoilHydro to maintain and refine portfolio here.
The leases we acquired are in deepwater and high quality Miocene sands, in which StatoilHydro is participating in several discoveries, including Tahiti, Heidelberg, Caesar/Tonga and Knotty Head.
StatoilHydro is an integrated technology-based international energy company primarily focused on upstream oil and gas operations. Headquartered in Norway, the company aims to deliver long-term growth and continue to develop technologies and manage projects that will meet the energy and climate challenges in a sustainable way.
