Equinor drills dry well west of Sandnessjøen
Key Highlights
- Equinor drilled a dry well in the Heidrun Cellar SE prospect in the Norwegian Sea.
- The well has been permanently plugged.
Equinor Energy AS drilled a dry well in the Heidrun Cellar SE prospect in in production license (PL) 124 240 km west of Sandnessjøen in the Norwegian Sea.
Wildcat well 6507/8-D-4 CH, the 10th in the license, was drilled by the Transocean Encourage drilling rig in 357 m of water to a vertical depth of 2,910 m subsea. It was terminated in the Grey Beds from the Late Triassic.
The well's objective was to prove petroleum in deeper stratigraphic levels on Heidrun field in reservoir rocks from the Early Jurassic (Åre formation) and Late Triassic (Grey Beds).
The well encountered sandstone layers in these layers with an overall thickness of about 161 m and good to very good reservoir quality. The well was not formation-tested, but data was acquired.
The well has been permanently plugged.
Equinor is operator at PL 124 (39.79%) with partners ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (27.91%), Petoro AS (22.29%), and Vår Energi (10.00%).