Repsol comes up dry in Barents

Repsol Norge is plugging its wildcat well 6306/5-2 (Hagar) on production license 642 after the well was found to be dry.

The Hagar well was drilled about 65km southwest of the Njord field and 35km southeast of the 6406/12-3 S and A discoveries (Pil and Bue) in the Norwegian Sea.

The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Rogn formation) and Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Melke formation).

Well 6306/5-2 encountered an about 12m-thick sandstone layer in the Rogn formation, with good reservoir quality. The well also encountered 247m of sandstone in the Melke formation with moderate reservoir quality. Data acquisition and sampling were carried out.

This is the first exploration well in production license 642, which was awarded in APA 2011.

Well 6306/5-2 was drilled to a vertical depth of 3192m below the sea surface and was terminated in the Melke formation in the Upper Jurassic.

Water depth at the site is 226m. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned.

Well 6306/5-2 was drilled using the Bredford Dolphin drilling facility, which will now proceed to drill wildcat well 16/1-25 S in production license 338 C in the North Sea, where Lundin Norway is operator.