Equinor drills dry well in North Sea Snorre area

Equinor Energy AS has plugged a North Sea well drilled in the Snorre area.

Wildcat well 34/6-9 S (Avbitertang) was drilled by the COSL Innovator drilling rig in production license 554, 35 km northeast of Snorre field and 125 km west of Florø. It was drilled to respective measured and vertical depths of 4,042 and 4,001 m subsea and was terminated in the Burton formation in the Lower Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 387 m.

The well is the ninth wildcat well drilled within the license acreage and is the third exploration well drilled in this area this year. Like wells 34/8-20 S (Narvi Nord) and 34/6-8 S (Garantiana NV), the well was dry, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate said in a release Nov. 11.

Geological information

The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks in the Cook formation, which it encountered in a total of about 106 m, 39 m of which with moderate to good reservoir quality.

Data was collected, including pressure points in the Cook formation.

Equinor is operator of the license with 40% interest. Partners are Aker BP ASA (30%) and Var Energi ASA (30%).