	shell to declare norway s draugen field commercial a s norske shell royal dutch shell group s rd as norwegian subsidiary said it has nearly concluded a billion crown development scheme for norway s draugen oil field and will declare the field commercial in the near future pending government approval of the scheme the field could come on stream in making it norway s northermost field development and the first such project on the haltenbanken tract off central norway work on the project could begin as early as january a shell spokesman said shell has not released projected output levels for the field where water depth is meters the spokesman said the field s partners have agreed to develop draugen with a meter single leg concrete gravity base platform the scheme also proposes using remote subsea production wells to tap the field s reservoir estimated to contain mln barrels of oil and an offshore buoy loading system to transport oil from the field by ship partners on draugen are shell the operator with a pct stake british petroleum co plc bp l unit bp petroleum development norway ltd pct and state owned den norske stats oljeselskap a s stat ol statoil pct reuter 
