Monday 17 June 2019

Dry well in the Barents near Korpfjell


The 7335/3-1 exploration well on Production Licence 859 has drilled a dry well.

The partners on the licence are: Equinor 65% operator, Lundin 15%, DNO 20%.

The licence lies in the Barents Sea and the 7335/3-1 well is located c.8km southeast of the Korpfjell gas discovery.

Both the primary and secondary exploration targets encountered sandy and poor reservoirs. The well was drilled by the West Hercules drilling rig to 4,268m below the sea surface and water depth was 239m The well has not been permanently plugged and abandoned.

The West Hercules rig will now move to drill a wildcat well 7324/6-1 in PL855 in the Barents Sea.

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