Equinor Energy AS drilled a dry well in PL 089 in the North Sea. Wildcat 34/7-37 S was drilled about 4 km west of Tordis field and about 200 km northwest of Bergen in 142 m water depth. It was the 42nd exploration well in the license.
Drilled by the Deep Sea Atlantic drilling facility to a vertical depth of 2,754 m and a measured depth of 2,755 m subsea, the well was terminated in the Heather formation in the Upper Jurassic. The objective was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the Upper Jurassic Munin segment in the Draupne formation.
The well did not encounter reservoir rocks in the and is dry. Data acquisition has been carried out and the well has been plugged.
The drilling facility will now drill the top hole in production well 34/10-O-3 H in PL 050 in the northern North Sea, where Equinor is operator.
Equinor is operator of PL 089 (41.5%) with partners Petoro AS (30%), Vår Energi AS (16.1%), Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS (9.6%), and Wintershall Dea Norge AS (2.8%).