- AKER BP makes minor gas find off Norway
- the company’s wildcat well encountered a 57-m gas column in the Orn formation in Late Carboniferous and Early Permian rock with high CO2 content
Aker BP has made a minor gas discovery in the east part of the Norwegian Barents Sea, next to the country’s maritime border with Russia, says an article on Natural Gas World.
57-m gas column
The company’s wildcat well encountered a 57-m gas column in the Orn formation in Late Carboniferous and Early Permian rock with high CO2 content. It also found gas traces in several thin sandstone layers of variable reservoir quality in the Snadd, Kobbe, and Havert formation in the Triassic layer.
The discovery is estimated at only 1.6-2.1bn m3 of gas in size and is not currently considered financially profitable, although Aker BP will assess it and other prospects in production license (PL) 858, the NPD said.
First to be drilled
This is the first well to be drilled at PL 858. It reached a vertical depth of 4,003 m, in waters 247 m deep. The Deepsea Nordkapp rig used to complete it will now move to PL 146 in the North Sea to drill another well for Aker BP.
Aker BP operates PL 858 with a 40% interest, while Norway’s Equinor and Petoro, and Russia’s Lukoil, each have 20% shares.
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Source: Natural Gas World
