A wildcat well drilled 5km northwest of the recent Wisting Central oil discovery in the Barents Sea has been classified as dry, says the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
The latest well, 7324/7-1 S, known as Wisting Alternative, is in production licence 537 and was operated by OMV (Norway) AS. It was targeting petroleum in the Middle Triassic reservoir rocks (the Kobbe formation).
A secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Middle to Late Triassic (the Snadd formation).
Reservoir rocks were encountered in the Kobbe and Snadd formations, but with poorer than expected properties.
Partners are: OMV (25%); Idemitsu (20%); Statoil (15%); Tullow (20%); and Petoro (20%).
The well, drilled with the Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible (pictured), will now be permanently plugged and abandoned.
The Leiv Eiriksson will move on to production licence 040 in the North Sea next, to drill well 30/40-D, where Total E&P Norge AS is the operator.
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