Det Norske has completed two appraisal wells on the West Cable discovery, nearby the Ivar Aasen field in the Norwegian North Sea.
The wells, in license 001 Bm, 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A, were drilled about 1.5km southeast of the 16/1-7 West Cable discovery and sought to prove additional recoverable oil resources in the southern part of the West Cable discovery.
16/1-26 encountered gas and oil in moderate to good reservoir quality. The oil/water contact was not encountered.
16/1-26 A encountered about 75m of sandstone in the Sleipner formation with moderate to good reservoir quality, but was dry.
The size of the discovery prior to drilling the appraisal wells was 2.1 MMcu m of recoverable oil equivalents. Preliminary results put the additional resources at between 0.5-2 MMcu m of oil equivalent.
The wells were drilled from a production well being drilled from the Ivar Aasen platform using the Maersk Interceptor jackup in 113m water depth. The Maersk Interceptor is due to continue pre-drilling on the field, due to start up early December this year.