Norway’s Statoil has struck oil and gas at a wildcat well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
This comes after the Norwegian oil and gas E&P, as operator of Gimle Unit and production licence 193, had completed drilling the 34/10-55 S well.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said Statoil had encountered a total oil and gas column of about 170 meters, of which 60 meters are in sandstone with good to very good reservoir properties in the Statfjord group and 10 meters in sandstone with moderate to good properties in the Lunde formation.
The well was drilled by the Gullfaks C platform to a structure east of the Gimle field, about seven kilometers northeast of the Gullfaks field and seven kilometers south of the Visund Sør field in the northern part of the North Sea.
Preliminary calculations indicate that the discovery contains between 1 and 3 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. The discovery looks certain to be produced from a subsequent development well from the Gullfaks C platform.
Although the well was not formation-tested, data acquisition and sampling were carried out.
Statoil strikes oil and gas with wildcat
Posted by | 27/03/2017
