Offshore staff
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Lundin Petroleum has set aside $225 million for exploration and appraisal this year on the Norwegian continental shelf.
The company will participate in 10 wells, five as operator, targeting a total resource of more than 650 MMboe.
Four of the planned exploration wells are in the southern Barents Sea. Two will be drilled on the Loppa high area, close to Lundin’s Alta/Gohta discoveries, on the Polmak prospect in PL609 and the Bask prospect in PL533B.
Others will be drilled on the Schenzhou prospect in PL722, close to OMV’s Wisting oil discovery, and Spissa in PL960.
In the Norwegian Sea the company is partner in a recently spud appraisal well on Wintershall Dea’s 2018 Balderbrå gas find in PL894, thought to hold 50-140 MMboe, and it will also participate in an exploratory well on the Melstein prospect in PL886.
On the line-up for the Norwegian North Sea are wells on the Iving prospect in PL820S and Hasselbaink in PL917, both east of the Alvheim area; and others on Merckx in PL981 and Dovregubben, two prospects on the Utsira High.
