Wintershall AG will appraise an oil discovery in 2013 in the Dutch North Sea to which it attributes “a potential of at least 30 million bbl recoverable oil with a more than significant upside.”
The F17-10 exploratory well in 44 m of water on the F17a license 120 km north of Den Helder went to a total depth of 1,490 m into the top of a salt dome and encountered a thick oil column and produced oil on a production test. Wintershall didn’t give further details.
