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** Plans include an appraisal well at the Verbier prospectin the outer Moray Firth, where Statoil made its largest oildiscovery of 2017
** Statoil estimates the Verbier discovery to holdpreliminary 25-130 million barrels of oil, and the appraisalwell should help to narrow the range
** Statoil holds 70 pct, Jersey Oil and Gas has 18 pct andCIECO V&C (
** Statoil will also drill exploration wells at the Pipprospect in the Fladen Ground Spur area and at the Bigfootprospect south of the Statoil-operated Mariner field
** Statoil and BP have 50 percent each in the two licenses
** The Norwegian oil and gas firm said these explorationplans demonstrated its commitment to the UKCS and it hoped tomake discoveries that could lead to new oilfield developments
** The three wells will be drilled by Seadrill's
** In 2017, Statoil also drilled three exploration on theUKCS, with two wells yielding disappointing results(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Terje Solsvik)
