The Marulk field is in the Norwegian Sea off Brønnøysund and Sandnessjøen, in production licence 122. The drilling location is around 13 kilometres west of the Norne field.

Water depth at the site is 368 metres.

The scheduled start date for drilling the well is early June 2019. The drilling and completion operations are expected to take 79 days.

The well is to be drilled by Scarabeo 8, which is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the Moss CS 50 MkII design. It was built at the Fincantieri Shipyard in Palermo, Italy and completed at Westcon’s yard in Ølensvåg in Rogaland county in 2011.