Equinor Energy AS will plug well 35/10-6 in the northern part of the North Sea. The well is dry.
Equinor, operator of production license 827 S, concluded drilling the well 20 km northwest of Fram field and about 145 km northwest of Bergen.
Well 35/10-6, the first exploration well in the license, was drilled by the West Hercules drilling facility to a vertical depth of 1,907 m subsea. It was terminated in the Lista formation in the Late Palaeocene. Water depth at the site is 368 m.
The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Early Eocene and Late Palaeocene reservoir rocks (Intra Balder and Sele formation sandstones). Sandstones were not encountered in the Balder formation. In the Sele formation, sandstones were encountered with a thickness of about 40 m with good to very good reservoir properties.
Data has been collected. The rig will now drill wildcat well 30/2-5 S in production license 878 in the northern North Sea, where Equinor is operator.