Equinor ASA and its companions have confirmed pure gasoline and condensate in manufacturing license 1119 within the Halten space of the Norwegian Sea.
Preliminary estimates from the drilling of the Mistral Sør exploration nicely, or nicely 6406/6-7 S, point out 3-7 million customary cubic meters of oil equal in recoverable assets, equivalent to 19-44 million barrels of oil equal, in keeping with the Norwegian majority state-owned firm.
“The licensees’ evaluation is that it is a industrial discovery, and they’ll think about tie-back to present infrastructure or growth along with different discoveries within the space”, Equinor mentioned in a web based assertion.
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“Mistral Sør is located only a quick distance north of Linnorm, the most important gasoline discovery on the Norwegian continental shelf that has but to be developed”, Equinor famous. It has raised its stake in Linnorm to 50 % after buying Shell PLC’s working 30 % curiosity, in a transaction accomplished April 2024. Linnorm is estimated to carry about 25-30 billion cubic meters (882.87 billion-1.06 trillion cubic toes) of recoverable gasoline, in keeping with Equinor.
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate mentioned individually, “Wildcat nicely 6406/6-7 S is the primary nicely drilled by the licensees in manufacturing license 1119, however the fifth throughout the license space as an entire”.
Grete B. Haaland, Equinor senior vice chairman for Exploration & Manufacturing North, commented, “Norwegian gasoline is in excessive demand and is essential to Europe’s power safety”.
“That’s why it’s necessary for us to proceed exploring and making new discoveries so we are able to preserve a excessive stage of deliveries”, Haaland added.
“This discovery was made in an space the place gasoline infrastructure is already in place, and which we’re additionally persevering with to develop. We now have energetic exploration efforts underway on this space, which have resulted in a number of discoveries lately”.
The drilling of Mistral Sør, performed by Odfjell Drilling Ltd.’s Deepsea Atlantic, aimed to show petroleum in Center Jurassic sandstones within the Garn Formation, with a secondary goal within the Ile Formation.
“Nicely 6406/6-7 S encountered an approx. 45-meter hydrocarbon column within the Garn Formation, with good reservoir properties”, Equinor mentioned. It was drilled to a vertical depth of 4,024 meters beneath sea stage and terminated within the Ror Formation within the Decrease Jurassic. The location has a water depth of 256 meters.
The secondary goal didn’t yield hydrocarbons.
“The nicely will probably be completely plugged, and the Deepsea Atlantic will go away the situation to begin drilling on 15/8-G-4 Utgard”, Equinor mentioned.
Equinor operates manufacturing license 1119, granted February 2021 and legitimate till August 2027, with a 50 % stake by Equinor Power AS. OKEA ASA owns 30 % and Pandion Power AS 20 %.
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