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Statoil awarded Greenland licence
Statoil, along with partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil, has been awarded block 6 in the East Greenland licence round. Statoil will be operator of the block.

Farm-in agreement with Maersk Oil, offshore Greenland
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that Naalakkersuisut, Greenland’s Government, has approved an agreement with Maersk Oil for Tullow to take a non-operated 40 per cent equity position in Block 9 (Tooq licence), Baffin Bay, north-western Greenland. Maersk Oil will continue to act as operator of the licence with a 47.5 per cent interest and Nunaoil, Greenland’s state oil company, will hold a 12.5 per cent interest.

New licence offshore Greenland
Statoil has acquired a 30.625% working interest in the Pitu licence in Baffin Bay. The licence was awarded to Cairn Energy during the first Baffin Bay licensing round in December 2010.

Greenland Operational Update
The following operational update relates to Cairn’s 2011 exploration drilling campaign offshore Greenland where drilling operations were extended to complete activities on the last two wells in the Atammik block.

Greenland Operational Update
The following operational update relates to Cairn’s current five well exploration drilling campaign offshore Greenland. Operations will continue to the end of November to allow activities on the last two wells in the Atammik block to complete.

Cairn Greenland Operational Update
The following operational update relates to Cairn’s exploration drilling campaign offshore Greenland.

Exploration Offshore Greenland
Cairn has commenced drilling operations on two wells offshore West Greenland.

Cairn secures rigs for 2011 Greenland Exploration
Cairn has secured two state of the art dynamically positioned drilling vessels for its 2011 dual rig exploration programme offshore Greenland.

Statoil New licenses offshore Greenland
Statoil and its consortium partners – Shell and GDF Suez – have been awarded two large exploration blocks in the Baffin Bay bid round in West Greenland. Shell will be the operator of both blocks.