Lundin Wildcat Hits Gas, Oil off Norway
Swedish independent Lundin has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7220/6-2 R in production licence 609 in Norway in the southern Barents Sea, the upstream regulator Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said November 22. It found oil and gas and has now been permanently plugged and abandoned.
Well 7220/6-2 R is a deepening of well 7220/6-2, which was temporarily plugged and abandoned in November 2015. The well was drilled about 60 km northeast of the oil and gas discovery 7220/11-1 (Alta) and about 20 km east of 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg. It went down to 1,293 m below the sea surface, and was terminated in basement rocks. Water depth is 387 m.
It found a total oil column of about 20 m with an overlying gas column of about 10 m in carbonate rocks in the Orn formation, with good to moderate reservoir properties. In the Snadd formation, the well encountered aquiferous sandstone with moderate to good reservoir properties.
Preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery range between 3mn and 7mn m³ of recoverable oil and between 1bn and 2bn m³ gas. The well was not production tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling were carried out.
The well is the sixth exploration well in production licence 609. The licence was awarded in the 21st licensing round in 2011.
Leiv Eriksson
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(Credit: Total)
Lundin holds 40% of the PL 609 while DEA and Japan's Idemitsu each hold 30%. The Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility will now proceed to production licence 533 in the Barents Sea to drill wildcat well 7219/12-1, again for Lundin, the NPD said.
William Powell