The Deepsea Yantai semisub has finished drilling a second appraisal well for ConocoPhillips Skandinavia on the 2020 Salgugle oil discovery in the Norwegian Sea.
According to a June 19 Norwegian Offshore Directorate news release, this was the third well on license 891 since it was awarded under the APA 2016 round. The location was 22 km northeast of the Heidrun Field and 270 km north of Kristiansund.
Early analysis of the results suggests a resource in the range 30.8 MMboe to 61.6 MMboe in Triassic reservoir rocks (Middle Grey Beds). Additional volumes in the lower Åre Formation and Upper Grey Beds, neither of which were included in the production test, could provide upside potential.
The licensees plan to examine the data and assess a possible development.
Well 6507/5-12 S, drilled in 341 m of water, encountered several oil columns in a 188-m interval in the Åre Formation and Grey Beds. During the formation test that followed, maximum production was 650 cu m/d of oil through a 36/64-inch nozzle opening.
After reaching a vertical depth of 2,169 m below sea level, the well was terminated in the Triassic (Red Beds).
Deepsea Yantai is now in PL 586 in the Norwegian Sea and is preparing to drill well 6406/11-2 S for Vår Energi and its partners.
