French supermajor Total has made a small gas and condensate discovery in the northeast part of the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.
Total estimates about 12-69 MMboe was found in the well, on production license 043, drilled using the Maersk Intrepid jackup in 115m water depth.
The Martin Linge field, a complex, high-pressure field, was discovered in 1975, about 42km from the Oseberg field. It is estimated to contain about 190 MMboe. The field development involves an integrated wellhead production and accommodation platform on a jacket, with power from shore using what will be the world's longest subsea high voltage AC power cable, with a floating storage unit.
The latest well will be completed as a production well, to be started on field start up. scheduled for 2018.
The objective of the latest well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (Brent group). The well encountered gas and condensate in the Tarbert, Ness and Etive formations in the Brent group. Reservoir quality was good.
The well has added additional resources to the Martin Linge development and was completed with the objective of putting the well into production at start-up of the field.
30/4-3 S is the fourth exploration well in production license 043. The license was awarded in 1976.
Image from Total.
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