Equinor and Wellesley have discovered oil in the Troll- and Fram area in the Toppand prospect in the Norwegian North Sea.
Equinor and Wellesley have discovered oil in the Troll- and Fram area in the Toppand prospect in the Norwegian North Sea. Preliminary calculations indicate around 21-33 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. Toppand is the fifth discovery in the area, and proven resources might exceed 300 million barrels of oil equivalent. The wells were drilled around 8 km west of the Fram field and 140 km northwest of Bergen. Well 35/10-7 S encountered an oil column of around 75 metres in the lower part of the Ness formation and in the Etive formation.
ExxonMobil has made two oil discoveries at Fangtooth-1 and Lau Lau-1 in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. The Fangtooth-1 well encountered 50 m of high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs. The well was drilled in 1838 m of water and is located 18 km north west of the Liza field. The Lau Lau-1 well encountered 96 m of high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone reservoirs. The well was drilled in 1461 m of water and is 68 km south east of the Liza field.
Carnarvon Energy has s0pudded the Buffalo-10 well in an attempt to confirm high-quality light oil to support economic development in the Timor Sea. Buffalo-10 well is being drilled offshore Timor-Leste within the TL-SO T19-14 PSC to a target depth of 11,500 ft. Carnarvon is the operator of the licence in partnership with Advance Energy. Carnarvon’s mid-case recoverable volume estimate is 31 million barrels (gross, 2C contingent resource).
Block Energy has announced that drilling has commenced at JKT-01Z in Georgia. The well is targeting c.8 MMbbls of oil-in-place and has been optimised by the recalibration of Block’s 3D seismic data acquired in 2019 with data gathered from recent wells.
Aker BP has won a drilling permit for wells 25/2-23 S, 25/2-23 A and 25/2- 23 B in production licence PL 873 in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Equinor has won consent to drill a well in Block 34/4 in the North Sea in production licence PL 057 to test the Statfjord kile exploration prospect. Water depth is 360 m.
Petronas has made a gas discovery at the Hadrah-1 wildcat exploration well of Block SK411, located in the shallow waters of Balingian Province about 170 km north west of Sarawak, Malaysia. The Hadrah-1 well was drilled to a total depth of 1850 m in November 2021 and encountered gas within an approximately 200-m thick sequence of high-quality sandstone and carbonate reservoirs. Hadrah-1 is Petronas’ third gas discovery in this province in 2021, after Sirung-1 and Kulintang-1. In 2019, oil and gas were also discovered within the same play at the D18 field.
United Oil & Gas has found oil in the Abu Sennan licence, onshore Egypt. The J-13 well encountered 17.5 m of net pay in the oil-bearing upper and lower Bahariya reservoir targets. The AJ-13 well reached a TD of 3840 m. United holds a 22% working interest in the licence, which is operated by Kuwait Energy Egypt.
Drilling operations have commenced on the Equinor-operated Ginny exploration well 6407/9-13 in the Norwegian Sea. The well, in production licence PL1060, targets both an Upper Jurassic (Ginny) and a Middle Jurassic (Hermine) prospect located between the Galtvort and Hasselmus discoveries.
Invictus Energy has confirmed it will drill two wells at its Cabora Bassa project in Zimbabwe in May.
