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Statoil has secured the Stena Carron rig for high-impact opportunities supporting the company’s international growth ambitions.

Statoil has signed a three year contract for the Stena Carron drillship for exploration drilling in the pre-salt blocks (Blocks 38 and 39) in the Kwanza basin in Angola.

The agreement managed by Stena Drilling is for a three-year fixed term with start-up Q4 2013 / Q1 2014. The estimated total contract value is USD 700 million. Statoil has also secured two one-year extensions.

Statoil has also allocated the Discoverer Americas drillship to East Africa to perform exploration drilling in the Statoil-operated blocks in Tanzania and Mozambique.

"Statoil has now secured rig capacity for its planned global exploration programme in 2013 and 2014. We have drilled four successful wells in Tanzania over the last year, and are now committed to drilling additional wells in Tanzania as well as in Mozambique and Angola," says Tim Dodson, executive vice president for Exploration in Statoil.

"Together with a three-well campaign in the Gulf of Mexico, three Statoil-operated wells in Canada, and a one-year drilling campaign in the Barents Sea, this demonstrates an ambitious exploration programme."

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