Results from Barents Sea Wildcat Announced by Aker BP
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Description
Oslo-based Aker BP completed a wildcat well in the Barents Sea. The #7234/6-1 is in production license PL 858 and south of the #7435/12-1 (Korpfjell) gas discovery. The test was designed to prove petroleum in carbonate reservoir rocks from Late Carboniferous and Early Permian (Orn). The venture encountered a gas column of 57 m in Orn, of which 26 m in carbonate rocks (dolomite) with poor to moderate reservoir quality. According to the operator, the gas/water contact was not encountered although water samples were collected. The well also encountered traces of gas in several thin sandstone layers in the Snadd, Kobbe and Havert (Triassic) and 36 m Realgrunnen Sub-group (Jurassic) with a sandstone reservoir with no traces of petroleum. Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 1.6 and 2.1 MMcm of recoverable oil equivalent. The well was not formation-tested, but data acquisition and sampling have been performed. It was drilled 4,003 m and area water depth is 247 m.
Oslo-based Aker BP completed a wildcat well in the Barents Sea. The #7234/6-1 is in production license PL 858 and south of the #7435/12-1 (Korpfjell) gas discovery. The test was designed to prove petroleum in carbonate reservoir rocks from Late Carboniferous and Early Permian (Orn). The venture encountered a gas column of 57 m in Orn, of which 26 m in carbonate rocks (dolomite) with poor to moderate reservoir quality. According to the operator, the gas/water contact was not encountered although water samples were collected. The well also encountered traces of gas in several thin sandstone layers in the Snadd, Kobbe and Havert (Triassic) and 36 m Realgrunnen Sub-group (Jurassic) with a sandstone reservoir with no traces of petroleum. Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 1.6 and 2.1 MMcm of recoverable oil equivalent. The well was not formation-tested, but data acquisition and sampling have been performed. It was drilled 4,003 m and area water depth is 247 m.