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Statoil makes new North Sea discovery

Norwegian oil giant Statoil has made a new oil and gas discovery close to the 30-year-old Valemon find.

Statoil makes new North Sea discovery
The Transocean Leader, which made the discovery. Photo: Statoil
The company estimates that the discovery, called Valemon Nord, holds the equivalent of 20m to 75m barrels of recoverable oil and gas. 
 
“We are very satisfied with making a new discovery in the close proximity of the Valemon gas and condensate field currently under development," said Irene Rummelhoff, the company's senior vice president for exploration in Norway. 
 
“By proving additional volumes in the area we increase the reserves base in the Valemon Unit area and add value to the Valemon field development.”
 
The Valemon field, discovered in 1985 has recoverable reserves of some 206 million barrels of oil equivalent, making it one of the company's biggest ongoing developments.  
 
The field is expected to start up in the fourth quarter of 2014.

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ANIMAL

Mysterious animal found without legs, feet in Danish forest

A dead animal with its head and hooves removed was discovered in a forest in western Jutland on Monday.

Mysterious animal found without legs, feet in Danish forest
The animal was found in a forest between the towns of Struer and Lemvig. Photo: Morten Stricker/Ritzau Scanpix

The animal was found by a person who was walking in the Klosterheden forest, local newspaper Holstebro Struer Dagbladet reports.

Police were alerted to the discovery at 2:20pm on Monday. The animal was found behind a bench near a parking area in the forest, which is located between the towns of Struer and Lemvig.

The long-haired animal, which was initially thought by the person who found it to be a horse, is an alpaca, a relative of the llama native to South America, police said.

“We do not yet know how it came to be there,” Lilian Jensen of Central and West Jutland Police told Holstebro Struer Dagbladet.

In addition to the missing head and hooves, the animal’s hind legs also had parts removed, which suggests that it may have been killed for its meat before being disposed of in the forest, the newspaper writes.

Jensen told Holstebro Struer Dagbladet that no reports of missing alpaca had been received.

Police also said that the condition of the carcass suggested it had been found within 24 hours of being left at the scene of the discovery.

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