Lundin Firms Up Norwegian Field

Swedish explorer Lundin has finished drilling the exploration wells 16/1-31 S (Jorvik) and 16/1-31 A (Tellus East) offshore Norway to determine the extent of the Edvard Greig field, it said June 20. The wells were drilled about 4 km northeast of the Edvard Grieg platform in the central part of the North Sea, 190 km west of Stavanger, and have been reclassified from wildcat wells to appraisal wells. They are in Production Licence 338.

The combined gross resources of Jorvik and Tellus East are estimated to be between 4mn and 37mn barrels of oil equivalent, with the gas component between 50mn and 550mn m³. Both Jorvik and Tellus East can be developed with wells from the platform, which will be evaluated in parallel with other infill targets and tie-in opportunities in the area, to make the most of the capacity, Lundin said.

The Edvard Grieg field was proven in reservoir rocks from the Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic Ages in 2007, and started production in 2015. 

The wells were drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now drill shallow gas pilot wells in production licence 359 in the North Sea, where Lundin is the operator. Its partners in PL338 are Austrian OMV (20%) and German Wintershall DEA (15%).