Offshore staff
OSLO, Norway – Suncor Energy has failed to prove more oil at the Beta discovery in the North Sea.
TheSonga Delta drilled appraisal well 33/6-3 on the Beta oil structure, proven in 2010, about 20 km (12.4 mi) northwest of the Snorre field. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the resource estimate for the discovery had been in the range 7-40 MMcm recoverable oil.
Suncor’s well, the first on license PL375 B, was designed to delineate a separate structure southwest of the 34/4-11 discovery. It encountered Early Jurassic reservoir rocks in the Statfjord formation, but the well was dry.
In the northern Norwegian North Sea, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has approved the use of the jackupWest Elaraon Statoil’s Valemon field development.
The consent relates to hookup of the rig to the jacket, drilling and installation of 30-in. (76-cm) conductors for the first planned 12 wells, and drilling of well B-20 for injection of drill cuttings and mud in the Utsira formation.
Valemon field is in blocks 34/10 and 34/11, between the Kvitebjørn and Gullfaks Sør platforms.
7/25/2012
