DNO ASA discovered oil and gas at the Kjøttkake exploration well in production license (PL) 1182 S, 27 km northwest of the Equinor AS-operated Troll C platform and 44 km southwest of the Vår Energi-operated Gjøa platform in the North Sea (OGJ Online, Jan. 8, 2025).
Kjøttkake is DNO’s tenth discovery since 2021 in the Troll-Gjøa exploration and development area, following Røver Nord, Kveikje, Ofelia, Røver Sør, Heisenberg, Carmen, Kyrre, Cuvette, and Ringand.
The well was drilled by the Deepsea Yantai rig and encountered a 41-m oil column and a 9-m gas column in Paleocene injectite sandstones with excellent reservoir quality. A sidetrack drilled horizontally 1,350 m westwards along the reservoir in the Sotra formation confirmed the presence of the oil column throughout the discovery.
Preliminary gross recoverable resource estimates are 39-75 MMboe, with a mean of 55 MMboe.
DNO is operator of the license with 40% interest. Partners are Aker BP ASA (30%), Japex Norway AS (15%), and Concedo AS (15%).
