OSLO, July 14 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil firm Det norske sees scope for further transactions after itsplanned merger with BP's Norwegian business, its chiefexecutive told Reuters on Thursday.
"There is definitely a very interesting market with bothmajors, but also independents and utility companies, that arecurrently in some sort of process trying to assess the strategy,particularly related to upstream," chief executive Karl JohnnyHersvik told Reuters.
When asked what kind of transaction the firm's financialsituation allowed, Hersvik said: "We don't really see size as alimitation at this point."
BP and Det norske agreed in June to merge their Norwegianbusinesses in a $1.3 billion all-share deal. (Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, editing by Gwladys Fouche)