Statoil Petroleum has completed the drilling of wildcat well 30/9-27 S and made a small oil discovery in the North Sea field.
The company operates production licence 104. The well was drilled around 7km west of the Oseberg Sør-field in the northern part of the North Sea located 150km west of Bergen using the drilling facility Songa Delta and encountered a 34m oil column in sandstone with moderate to good reservoir quality.
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The drilling was aimed at proving petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks known as the Tarbert Formation.
According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the oil/water contact was encountered 3,242m below sea level.
Based on preliminary estimates, the size of the discovery ranges between one and two million standard cubic metres of recoverable oil equivalents.
Further, the company plans to develop the discovery together with the Oseberg Delta 2 project, which is under development.
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By GlobalDataThe licensees are assessing a production well that was structure encountered by wildcat well 30/9-27 S, the 26th exploration well drilled in production licence 104.
Drilled to a measured and vertical depth of 3,989m and 3,353m respectively below the sea surface, the well was terminated in Middle Jurassic rocks and has been permanently plugged and abandoned.
Songa Delta will now drill development well 30/9-O-2 H in production licence 104.
Image: The well was drilled around 7km west of the Oseberg Sør-field using the drilling facility Songa Delta. Photo: courtesy of Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
