Statoil and partners ENI and Petoro have made a 25-50 MMboe oil discovery in the Kayak exploration well in the Barents Sea, close to the Johan Castberg project.
Eni said preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery are between 100 and 180 MMbo in place (25–50 MMbo recoverable), with further potential to be evaluated.
The discovery was made via well 7219/9-2, drilled using the Songa Enabler the in 336m water depth, in PL532, about 23km southwest of the Johan Castberg discovery well and 226km northwest of Hammerfest.
The discovery may provide "valuable additional volumes" for the Johan Castberg development, says Statoil, as well as opening up other exploration opportunities in the same area, which is a previous unexplored play in the Barents Sea.
“This opens interesting opportunities,” says Jez Averty, senior vice president for exploration, Norway and the UK. “Efforts will be made to find a commercial solution for the Kayak discovery towards the Johan Castberg license, and to bring out other similar prospects in the Barents Sea."
“There may be additional resources in this structure, and we will now analyze the acquired data and consider possible appraisal of the discovery,” adds Averty.
The Songa Enabler semisubmersible drilling rig will now return to and complete the Blåmann well. Next, drilling at Gemini North will start. All of the necessary permits are in place, and the work can start as early as 10 July.
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