Horizontal Appraisal In Barents Sea Produces 5 Mboe/d.
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OMV completed drilling and testing of the first horizontal appraisal well in the Barents Sea, #1 Wisting Central II, in Wisting Field. Wisting Field is the northernmost oil discovery in Norway and the appraisal well is in production license PL537. During a flowtest, it produced 5 Mboe per day. The well objectives were to confirm the potential of the discovery by proving the presence of hydrocarbons in the undrilled Wisting Central South and Central West segments and to prove the technical concept of long-reach horizontal wells in a shallow reservoir (about 250 m below the sea bed). The venture is in 402 m of water. The total well length is 2,354 m, and the horizontal section is 1,402 m.
Description
OMV completed drilling and testing of the first horizontal appraisal well in the Barents Sea, #1 Wisting Central II, in Wisting Field. Wisting Field is the northernmost oil discovery in Norway and the appraisal well is in production license PL537. During a flowtest, it produced 5 Mboe per day. The well objectives were to confirm the potential of the discovery by proving the presence of hydrocarbons in the undrilled Wisting Central South and Central West segments and to prove the technical concept of long-reach horizontal wells in a shallow reservoir (about 250 m below the sea bed). The venture is in 402 m of water. The total well length is 2,354 m, and the horizontal section is 1,402 m.