Offshore staff
STAVANGER, Norway — Wintershall Dea has discovered gas condensate in the Cuvette prospect in the Norwegian northern North Sea.
Cuvette is 3 km south of the company’s Vega Central field. The partners, including Petoro and DNO, will consider whether the find can be produced on a fast-track basis via the Vega Central template.
The semisub Transocean Norge drilled well 35/11-27 S in PL 248, 100 km southwest of Florø. The well encountered gas condensate in Middle and Upper Jurassic sandstones, with estimated recoverable volumes of 9 MMboe to 22 MMboe in the chief Mid-Jurassic target and 7 MMboe to 16 MMboe in the shallower Upper Jurassic.
According to Wintershall Dea, there is spare capacity at the nearby Gjøa platform, operated by Vår Energi, which hosts Vega’s production.
“We will continue to explore for hydrocarbons in the area to use this capacity,” said Ronny Hanssen, vice president of Production & Operations for Wintershall Dea Norge.
Cuvette is the eighth find that DNO has participated in since 2021 in the area around the Troll and Gjøa production hubs. The others are Røver Nord, Kveikje, Ofelia, Røver Sør, Heisenberg, Carmen and Kyrre.
“We are racking up discovery after discovery close to existing gathering and processing infrastructure,” said executive chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani. “Our challenge now is to inject the Norwegian oil sector with a large dose of entrepreneurialism to bring a sense of urgency to partners, infrastructure hosts and regulatory bodies in helping bring our and other discoveries to market.
DNO still has five wells on its line-up offshore Norway this year, four of which are also in the Troll-Gjøa area.
06.20.2024
