Norway: Drilling of Snoehvit well completed

Statoil has concluded the drilling of an appraisal well in the Snohvit field in the Barents Sea. The well was drilled to map the recoverable oil reserves in the field.

The appraisal well 7120/6-2 in production licence 097 was drilled to a depth of 3,120 metres below the seabed and finished in late Triassic rocks. Water depth in the area is 321 metres.

Statoil says the well was drilled without any incidents or accidental discharges to the sea.

The goal of the drilling was to gain further information about the thickness of the gas and oil column in the western part of Snohvit and to find out whether the oil column is situated in a zone with reservoir properties that are sufficiently good for oil recovery.

The company say the comprehensive data compilation has been done in the well. The data will now be analysed and the result will be ready during September.

The Norway Post