The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has reported Equinor has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 35/10-6, near the Fram field in the northern North Sea.
Equinor operates the well, located in production licence 827 S. It was drilled about 20km northwest of the Fram field, and about 145km northwest of Bergen.
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According to the NPD, the objective of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Early Eocene as well as Late Palaeocene Age.
In a press statement, NPD said: “Sandstones were not encountered in the Balder Formation. In the Sele Formation, sandstones were encountered with a thickness of about 40 metres with good to very good reservoir properties.”
NPD said the well is dry and data acquisition has been carried out.
The 35/10-6 well is the first well in production licence 827 S, drilled to a vertical depth of 1907m by the West Hercules drilling rig. It has now been plugged and abandoned.
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