Oil and gas discovery in the Barents Sea 7222/6-1 S

StatoilHydro Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 228, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7222/6-1 S.

The well was drilled in a prospect called ‘Obesum’ in block 7222/6, approximately 175 kilometres northwest of Hammerfest. The purpose of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in sandstone from the Middle and Late Triassic period.