Lundin Petroleum has made a gas discovery on the Zulu well, close to the giant Johan Sverdrup discovery, offshore Norway.
Wildcat well 26/10-1, which is the first well in production license 74BS, hit an estimated 36m gas column in very good reservoir quality Utsira Formation sands.
Lundin said the well, about 100km west of Stavanger and 30km northeast of Johan Sverdrup, was testing the Miocene Utsira Formation sand and that gas was encountered in an upper 24m sand sequence. Pressure measurements implied a 36m gas column.
The well was drilled by the drilling rig Island Innovator (pictured) to a total depth of 995m subsea and was terminated in sediments of presumed Oligocene age Hordaland Group. The well was drilled in a water depth of 140m on the Patch Bank Ridge.
PL674BS was awarded as a part of PL674 in APA 2012 and carved out as a separate license in 2014.
Lundin Norway is operator with a 35% working interest. Petrolia Norway and E.ON E&P Norge are partners with 35-30% working interest respectively.
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