Yeah, I thought so too. However it seems they've decided to spend the money elsewhere. This has nothing to do with Qec but thought I should post it here regardless, just to close the thread. For that reason I've not bothered posting the whole article - just the heading.

http://www.hegnar.no/okonomi/article512537.ece

Statoil to invest about NOK 60 billion to extract heavy oil from their UK fields Mariner and Bressay. The oil is the heaviest ever extracted offshore.