OKEA ASA announced that the Company has been awarded six new production licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy under the Award in Pre-Defined Areas (APA) for 2020. The awarded licenses include exploration and field development opportunities near the important Draugen and Gjøa production hubs as well as other new areas. OKEA will be the operator for four of the licenses and a partner with operators DNO and Wintershall Dea in the remaining two. In the Norwegian Sea the new licenses include, among others, the Falk, Cortina and Spinell Sør discoveries where opportunities for further exploration and field development have been identified, some of which are close to the OKEA-operated Draugen field. In the northern North Sea, the new production licence (PL1108) lies between the producing Gjøa field, where OKEA is a partner, and the OKEA-operated Aurora discovery. Two of the licences have a work programme leading to a drill or drop decision in early 2022. The others have a two-year initial work programme.