Repsol drills dry well southwest of Njord field

STAVANGER, Norway -- Repsol Norge, operator of production license 642, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6306/5-2, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate announced Tuesday. The well is dry.

The well was drilled about 65 km southwest of Njord field, and 35 km southeast of the 6406/12-3 S and A discoveries (Pil and Bue) in the Norwegian Sea.

The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Rogn formation) and Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Melke formation).

Well 6306/5-2 encountered an approximately 12-m thick sandstone layer in the Rogn formation, with good reservoir quality. The well also encountered 247 m of sandstone in the Melke formation with moderate reservoir quality.

Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out.

This is the first exploration well in production license 642, which was awarded in APA 2011.
Well 6306/5-2 was drilled to a vertical depth of 3,192 m below the sea surface and was terminated in the Melke formation in the Upper Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 226 m. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned.

The well was drilled by the Bredford Dolphin drilling facility, which will now proceed to drill wildcat well 16/1-25 S in production license 338 C in the North Sea, where Lundin Norway is the operator.