Wintershall has won consent to drill exploration well 6406/3-10 in PL 836 S in the Norwegian Sea.
Wintershall has won consent to drill exploration well 6406/3-10 in PL 836 S in the Norwegian Sea. The well will test a prospect named Bergknapp.
Equinor and partner Neptune have struck oil in the Sigrun East prospect in the North Sea. Recoverable resources are estimated at between 7 and 17 million barrels of oil equivalent. Two wells in production licence PL025/187 were drilled 11 km south-east of the Gudrun field. The main well proved oil in three zones in moderate-quality sandstone in the Hugin formation.
Aker BP has won consent to start up the Skogul field in the North Sea. Skogul was proven in 2010 and the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) was approved in early 2018. Recoverable resources are estimated at 1.5 million standard cubic metres of oil (9.4 million bbls).
The government of Somalia has agreed with the Shell/Exxon joint venture on the next steps towards the exploration and development of certain offshore hydrocarbon blocks as part of production sharing agreements.
SDX Energy has announced an oil find from its Rabul-3 well in the West Gharib Concession in Egypt. The well was drilled to a total depth of 5129 feet and encountered approx. 116 feet of net heavy oil pay across the Yusr and Bakr formations. The Yusr and Bakr formations are of excellent reservoir quality with an average porosity of 21%.
Equinor has been granted a drilling permit in production licence PL 827 S in the North Sea. The well will be drilled about 11 km southwest of the Vega field.
Eni has made a new oil discovery on the Saasken Exploration Prospect in the mid-deep water of the Cuenca Salina in the Sureste Basin, offshore Mexico. The discovery is estimated to contain between 200 and 300 million barrels of oil in place. The well was drilled to a water depth of 340 m and reached a total depth of 3830 m. Saasken-1 discovered 80 m of net pay of good quality oil in the Lower Pliocene and Upper Miocene sequences.
