Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS, to announce that drilling of exploration well 16/2-20S on PL501 immediately north of the Johan Sverdrup discovery located in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), has commenced.

The well is exploring the area north of the well-established Johan Sverdrup discovery. Well 16/2-20S is located approximately 7 kilometres north-west of the successful well 16/2-12 confirming oil-filled Jurassic reservoir in the northern part of the Johan Sverdrup discovery (Geitungen) and 3.3 kilometres downdip and north of well 16/2-9S which found a thin reservoir sequence of lesser quality compared to well 16/2-12.

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