Offshore staff
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Lundin Energy Norway will mature its Lille Prinsen discovery in the North Sea for a potential project sanction in 2022.
This follows successful appraisal drilling on the find, located 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the company’s Edvard Grieg platform.
The semisubmersible Deepsea Stavanger drilled the wells in the PL167 license on the Utsira High. Well 16/1-34 A well was designed to prove reservoir and production properties in the carbonate sediments of the Permian Zechstein formation, while well 16/1-34 S was targeting an oil leg in the Palaeocene Heimdal formation.
Results confirmed a gross resource range of 10-50 MMboe in the Lille Prinsen discovery. A drillstem test delivered a facilities-constrained 3,580 b/d of 33° API oil.
There was a further discovery, estimated at 2-10 MMboe, in the Heimdal formation, with a 7-m (23-ft) oil column within a 50-m (164-ft) thick sand sequence.
The partners will seek to take advantage of temporary tax incentives implemented last summer by Norway’s government by submitting a development proposal in 2022. And with further prospectivity in the surrounding license areas, there is potential to add additional phases of development from other discoveries, Lundin said.
Lundin’s co-venturers in the license are Equinor Energy, Spirit Energy Norway, and Aker BP.
The Deepsea Stavanger will next drill the Merckx exploration prospect for Lundin in PL981, southwest of the Solveig field and on the Utsira High.
Well 16/4-12 will target Palaeocene sandstones and Permian carbonates, with prospective resources of 152 MMboe. Aker BP is the other partner.
09/16/2021
