Repsol Norge AS will plug well 9/2-12 in the North Sea. The well is dry, without traces of petroleum.
Repsol, operator of production license 910, is in the process of completing the drilling of the wildcat well 6 km northeast of the Yme field center in 99 m of water (OGJ Online, Apr. 5, 2018).
Well 9/2-12, the first exploration well in the license, was drilled using Saipem’s Scarabeo 8 semisubmersible drilling rig to a vertical depth of 3,121 m subsea. It was terminated in the Bryne formation in the Middle Jurassic.
The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Sandnes formation). In the formation, the well encountered 130 m of reservoir rocks, 50 m of which was sandstone with poor to moderate quality.
Data has been collected. The rig will now go to a shipyard.
