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Q005 Exploring the Established Petroleum Provinces of the NCS T.S. Sjøblom* (StatoilHydro) SUMMARY 71 st EAGE Conference & Exhibition — Amsterdam The Netherlands 8 - 11 June 2009StatoilHydro’s exploration in the established petroleum provinces of the North Sea and Halten/Dønna Terrace has been highly successful in recent years providing resources to infrastructure with spare capacity and occasionally providing discoveries with stand-alone potential. The success rate in these areas is typically between 50-80% and the accumulation sizes typically range from 20 – 100Mboe. Despite many small discoveries commercialization is likely in most of the accumulations proven. Examples of successful StatoilHydro exploration