Var Energi ASA on Thursday confirmed a brand new oil discovery on Norway’s aspect of the Barents Sea, the second discovery in weeks in its ongoing Goliat Ridge drilling marketing campaign.
Situated 5 kilometers (3.11 miles) north of the manufacturing Goliat discipline, operated by Var Energi, the Goliat North exploration effectively encountered hydrocarbons within the Realgrunnen and Kobbe formations, the Norwegian firm mentioned in an internet assertion. Estimated gross recoverable sources are as much as 5 million barrels of oil equal (MMboe).
“Together with the newest discovery, the Goliat Ridge is estimated to include gross found sources of 39-108 MMboe and with extra potential sources taking the full gross potential to as much as 200 MMboe”, Var Energi mentioned.
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“A tie-back of the Goliat Ridge discoveries to the close by Goliat FPSO [floating production, storage and offloading vessel] is being deliberate”.
Goliat Nord, or effectively 7122/7-8, aimed to show hydrocarbons in Decrease Jurassic/Higher Triassic and Center Triassic rocks within the Realgrunnen Subgroup and the Kobbe Formation respectively, based on the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD).
“Properly 7122/7-8 S encountered an eight-meter [26.25 feet] gasoline/oil column within the Tubaen Formation within the Realgrunnen Subgroup in reservoir rocks totaling 6.5 meters, with good reservoir high quality”, the NOD reported individually. “The gasoline/oil contact was encountered 1,255 meters under sea stage. The oil/water contact was not encountered.
“The effectively additionally encountered a six-meter gasoline/oil column within the Fruholmen Formation within the Realgrunnen Subgroup in reservoir rocks with good reservoir high quality. The gasoline/oil contact was encountered 1,285 meters under sea stage. The oil/water contact was encountered 1,290 meters under sea stage.
“Within the Kobbe Formation, the effectively encountered a 17-meter oil column in reservoir rocks totaling 12 meters, with good reservoir high quality. The oil/water contact was encountered 2,048 meters under sea stage”.
Goliat North was drilled to a vertical depth of two,197 meters under sea stage and was terminated within the Kobbe Formation within the Center Triassic. The location has a water depth of 409 meters, based on the NOD.
Goliat North has been completely plugged and deserted, it mentioned.
Goliat North is the twelfth exploration effectively drilled in Manufacturing License 229, awarded 1997, based on the NOD.
On November 13 Var Energi ASA confirmed oil within the Goliat Ridge’s Zagato North appraisal effectively, situated 10 kilometers north of Goliat.
Zagato North, or effectively 7122/8-4 S, yielded estimated gross recoverable sources of as much as three MMboe within the Klappmyss and Realgrunnen formations.
The invention had been confirmed February. The effectively aimed to delineate the 7122/8-3 S (Zagato) discovery in Decrease Jurassic-Higher Triassic and Center Triassic reservoir rocks within the Realgrunnen Subgroup and the Kobbe Formation respectively, based on the NOD.
Var Energi mentioned Thursday drilling on the Zagato sidetrack effectively was ongoing.
“Following completion of the appraisal program the corporate will assess all the potential of Goliat Ridge using the intensive knowledge acquisition mixed with the newly acquired 3D seismic knowledge”, it mentioned.
Var Energi operates license 229 with a 65 p.c stake. Majority state-owned Equinor owns 35 p.c.
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