Norway's Statoil has made a gas condensate and oil discovery southwest of the Oseberg Sør facility in the North Sea, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).
The discovery, in production license 035/272, was made through the wildcat wells 30/11-14 and 30/11-14 B.
The wells were drilled in 107m water depth using the Songa Delta drilling rig about 6km southeast of the 30/11-8 S (Krafla) discovery and 25km southwest of the Oseberg Sør facility.
Preliminary estimates indicate that the size of the discovery in well 30/11-14 is 1-2MMcm of recoverable oil equivalents and 2-5MMcm of recoverable oil equivalents in well 30/11-14 B, says the NPD. The licensees will assess the discoveries together with other discoveries in the vicinity, with regard to a potential development.
The wells will be permanently plugged and abandoned and the Songa Delta will move on to drill wildcat well 6407/7-9 S in production license 107 C in the Norwegian Sea, where Statoil Petroleum is the operator.