Lundin makes oil, gas discovery in Filicudi prospect in Barents Sea

Feb. 13, 2017
Lundin Norway AS, a unit of Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, has made an oil and gas discovery with main well 7219/12-1, which was drilled on the Filicudi prospect in the southern Barents Sea. Lundin is now drilling sidetrack well 7219/12-1A.

Lundin Norway AS, a unit of Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, has made an oil and gas discovery with main well 7219/12-1, which was drilled on the Filicudi prospect in the southern Barents Sea. Lundin is now drilling sidetrack well 7219/12-1A.

The wells are in production license 533 (PL533) about 40 km southwest of Johan Castberg and 30 km northwest of the Alta and Gohta discoveries on the Loppa High (OGJ Online, Sept. 30, 2016).

The main objective of the discovery well was to prove oil in Jurassic and Triassic sandstone reservoirs. The well encountered a 129-m gross hydrocarbon column of high-quality sandstone reservoir characteristics with 63 m of oil and 66 m gas in the Jurassic and Triassic targets. Extensive data acquisition and sampling has been carried out including coring, logging, and oil and gas sampled from the wireline tools.

The sidetrack well has reached total depth and has confirmed the reservoir and hydrocarbon column. The gross resource estimate for the Filicudi discovery is 35-100 million boe.

Filicudi is on trend with the Johan Castberg discovery, with resources of 500 million boe, in similar reservoir intervals. Multiple additional prospects have been identified on the Filicudi trend in PL533 with total gross unrisked prospective resource potential for the trend of as much as 700 million boe. The partnership is considering the drilling of as many as two additional prospects this year.

The Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible drilling rig, which drilled the discovery, will next move to the Gohta discovery in PL492 to drill a second delineation well on this discovery (OGJ Online, July 21, 2014).

Lundin Norway is operator of both PL533 and PL492 and holds respective working interest of 35% and 40% in these licenses.