OSLO, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Norway's oil and energy ministryhas approved a hike in the 2016 oil output quota of the NorthSea Troll field to 46.5 million barrels from 41.7 million,giving it the highest output level since 2009, document obtainedby Reuters showed on Friday.
Field operator Statoil requested an increase onbehalf of the license partners in September, and the ministrygranted it on Nov. 4, a letter from the ministry showed.
Other partners in the field are Norway's state-owned Petoro,Shell, Total and ConocoPhillips. (Reporting by Stine Jacobsen and Nerijus Adomaitis, editing byTerje Solsvik)