Lundin finds gas in Zulu prospect offshore Norway

Feb. 6, 2015
Lundin Norway AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum AB, encountered Utsira formation sand with “very good reservoir quality” while drilling wildcat well 26/10-1 in PL674BS.

Lundin Norway AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum AB, encountered Utsira formation sand with “very good reservoir quality” while drilling wildcat well 26/10-1 in PL674BS.

The well—whose goal was to investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the Zulu prospect—encountered gas in an upper 24-m sand sequence, and pressure measurements imply a gas column of 36-m, Lundin says. Spudding occurred last month (OGJ Online, Jan. 20, 2015).

The well was drilled by the Island Innovator semisubmersible drilling rig to a total depth of 995 m in 140 m of water on the Patch Bank ridge, and terminated in sediments of presumed Oligocene age Hordaland group. The well is being plugged and abandoned as a gas discovery.

Thorough logging and sampling has been performed, the company says. Fluid data will be analyzed and detailed mapping performed for resource potential evaluation.

Lundin estimates the Zulu prospect, which lies 100 km west of Stavanger on the Norwegian west coast and 30 km northeast of the Johan Sverdrup discovery, has the potential to contain unrisked, gross prospective resources of 153 million boe.

This was the first exploration well drilled in PL674BS, awarded as a part of PL674 in APA 2012 (OGJ Online, Jan. 24, 2013); and divided as a separate license in 2014.

Lundin Norway is operator with 35% working interest. Petrolia Norway and E.On E&P Norge are partners with 35% and 30% interest, respectively.