PGNiG drills dry well near Fenja field in Norwegian Sea
PGNiG Upstream Norway will plug Norwegian Sea well 6306/3-1 S. The well is dry, with no traces of petroleum. Data acquisition has been carried out.
The well, the first in license 937, was drilled about 15 km south of Fenja field and 100 km northwest of Kristiansund by the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig to a vertical depth of 2,353 m below sea level. It was terminated in basement rock. Water depth at the site is 241 m.
The objective was to prove petroleum in a project consisting of sandstones in the Lyr formation from the Early Cretaceous, as well as in the Rogn formation from the Late Jurassic.
The well encountered the Lyr formation with a thickness of about 5 m, consisting of calcite-cemented clay, silt, and extremely fine-grained sandstone with poor reservoir quality. The well encountered the Rogn formation with about 27 m of calcite-cemented sandstone with poor to moderate reservoir quality.
PGNiG Upstream Norway acquired the asset as part of a deal earlier in the year to purchase all assets of INEOS E&P Norge for $323 million, nearly half of the $615 million consideration agreed in March (OGJ Online, Sept. 13, 2021; Sept. 27, 2021).
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