Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

06/01/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/01/2023 00:37

Dry well near the Troll field in the North Sea

01/06/2023 Equinor Energy AS, operator of production licence 923, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 31/2-23 S.

The well was drilled about 3 kilometres west of the Troll field in the North Sea and about 120 kilometres northwest of Bergen.

The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks in the Brent Group.

The well encountered the Brent Group with a thickness of around 135 metres, including sandstone layers of around 80 metres with good reservoir quality. The well is dry and data acquisition has been carried out.

This is the fifth exploration well in production licence 923, which was awarded in APA 2017.

Well 31/2-23 S was drilled to a vertical depth of 2333 metres below sea level and was terminated in the Drake Formation in the Lower Jurassic.

Water depth at the site is 343 metres. The well has been permanently plugged and abandoned.

Well 31/2-23 S was drilled by Deepsea Stavanger, which is now drilling wildcat well 31/2-24 in the same production licence as 31/2-23 S.

Updated: 01/06/2023

Drilling permit for well 30/11-15

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Production figures April 2023

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NPD geologist re-elected to UN post

22/05/2023 In late April, geologist Stig-Morten Knutsen was re-elected to the board of a UN expert group for resources (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe /Expert Group on Resource Management - UNECE/EGRM).

Drilling permit for well 25/2-24 B

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