Statoil of Norway, operator of the production licence 120, has discovered gas at the wildcat well 34/8-17 S on the northeast flank of the Visund field, in the North Sea.
The well encountered an approximately 31-metre gross gas column in the Tarbert, Ness and Etive formations in the Middle Jurassic, about 20 metres of which were in sandstones with very good reservoir quality.
This is the 24th exploration well in production licence 120, which was awarded in the 10th licensing round, part A, in 1985.
34/8-17 S was drilled to a vertical depth of 3187 meters below the sea surface, and was terminated in the Lunde formation in the Upper Triassic. The water depth is 378 meters.
[mappress] Press Release, March 19, 2014; Image: npd.no