Lundin Petroleum AB subsidiary Lundin Norway AS will plug and abandon Silfari exploration well 6307/1-1S in PL830 in the Norwegian Sea. The well was dry.
The main objective of the well was to test the reservoir properties and hydrocarbon potential of the Jurassic and Permian formations in the frontier Froan basin, next to the Frøya High in the Norwegian Sea.
The well encountered good reservoir sands in the targeted Jurassic formation but with no hydrocarbon indications. In the second target, no reservoir intervals or hydrocarbons were encountered.
This well—the first in the Froan basin area—provided significant data points as to the geology of the basin, which will be analyzed to determine any further prospectivity, the company said. The potential of the undrilled, adjacent Frøya High area is unaffected by the Silfari result.
Lundin Norway is operator of PL830 with 40%. Partners are Equinor, Neptune Energy, and Petoro with 20% each.
The well was drilled with the Ocean Rig Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible drilling rig, which will next drill exploration well 7121/1-2 S on the Pointer-Setter prospect in PL767, southeast of the Alta-Gohta discovery in the southern Barents Sea.
The Pointer-Setter prospect contains two distinct lower Cretaceous sandstone targets with estimated total gross unrisked prospective resources of 312 million boe. Lundin Norway is operator of PL767 with 50%. Partners are INPEX, 40%; and DNO, 10%.
