Uchenna Izundu
International Editor
LONDON, Dec. 4 -- StatoilHydro will plug and abandon appraisal well 34/8-14 A in the Norwegian Sea after it confirmed the Pan-Pandora gas and oil discovery south of Visund field in the North Sea.
Well 34/8-14 A found a 53 m gas column over an 8 m oil column in the Brent group, and the company has carried out data acquisition and sampling.
The Borgland Dolphin drilling rig drilled the well in 292 m of water. It reached a TVD of 3,044 m below sea level and was completed in the Drake formation in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks.
StatoilHydro will drill sidetrack 34/8-14 C from this appraisal well in the lower flank of the same segment. "The sidetrack is designed to determine the oil-water contact and contribute to more accurate evaluations of the Pan-Pandora resource potential," StatoilHydro said.
"The area south of Visund has a considerable remaining resource potential, and we are very pleased that the expectations as to the northern extension of the discovery now have been confirmed," said May-Liss Hauknes, StatoilHydro's head of infrastructure-led exploration west.
This is the 14th exploration well in production license 120, which was awarded in 1985. StatoilHydro holds 59.06% in production licenses 120 and 120B. Its partners are Petoro 16.94%, ConocoPhillips 13%, and Total SA 11%.
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