Offshore staff
STAVANGER, Norway – Wintershall Dea has discovered gas, condensate, and oil in the Dvalin North prospect in the Norwegian Sea.
The well was drilled by the semisubmersible Deepsea Aberdeen in 450 m (1,476 ft) water depth in the PL211 license in the Haltenbanken region, 12 km (7.5 mi) north of the company’s Dvalin field development.
It encountered hydrocarbons in the Cretaceous Garn, Lysing and Lange formations, with an estimated combined resource range of 71-157 MMboe.
“This important find supports our strategy of primarily investing in infrastructure-led exploration activity which will yield synergies with existing fields,” said Hugo Dijkgraaf, Wintershall Dea chief technology officer and responsible executive board member for global exploration.
The Deepsea Aberdeen will next appraise the nearby Bergknapp, discovered by the company in 2020.
Earlier this month, Wintershall Dea and the North Sea Nova license partnership decided to terminate their contract with Seadrill Northern Operations for the semisubmersible West Mira.
This followed investigations into an incident in March which led to a x-mas tree for the Nova field development falling from the rig to the seafloor, plus an overall performance assessment.
Nova is under development as a subsea tieback to the Gjøa platform.
The partners will contract an alternative rig to complete development drilling and are still targeting the second half of 2022 for start-up.
The West Mira has not been in operation since March 19, following the incident with the dropped X-mas tree.
05/20/2021
