By Susana Lima

The Norwegian oil company Statoil announced on Monday about the discovery of a new large oil field located in the Barents Sea, which could contain 300 million barrels or so.

This revelation confirms the potential of the Barents Sea depths, where in April of 2011, Statoil discovered another deposit called Skrugard.

Havis, as the recently discovered deposit was named, and Skrugard could contain between 400 and more than 600 million barrels of oil.

Statoil deputy Helge Lund said in a statement that the two fields opened a new oil province in the north.

Both reserves are 7 miles away and despite not sharing any connection, its development could be set together.

The two deposits, which are part of the same production license, owned by Statoil, which has 50%, Italy's Eni, 30% and Norwegian state-owned Petoro which owns 20%.