According to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate, the main aim was to acquire data on the reservoir and cap rock.
The well was drilled on PL 537, which is 300 km north of Hammerfest in 396 m water depth. It encountered the reservoir in the Stø and Nordmela formations (39 m in total), with good reservoir quality, and it has since been plugged and abandoned.
OMV discovered Wisting in 2013 in Middle Jurassic and Upper Triassic reservoir rocks in the Realgrunnen sub-group. Equinor (in partnership with OMV) is working on a potential development with the Hanssen discovery in the same license.
Elsewhere in the Barents Sea, Equinor has secured approval from the Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil) to use the semisub Transocean Enabler for production drilling/completion and drilling of an exploration segment at the Johan Castberg Field, which is due to come onstream later this year.
