PDO for Luno II
The Solveig oil discovery in PL359, is located 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field and will be developed via a subsea tie-back to the Edvard Grieg platform, involving…
Lundin
Low expectations for Korpfjell Deep
At Exploration Revived Leif Bjørnar Henriksen from Equinor presented the results of the Korpfjell well 7435/12-1, which was the first well in the Barents Sea southeast. Up front the industry…
Good connectivity in fractured carbonates
The estimated resources for Alta and Gohta remain unchanged (115-390 MMboe) for the moment while Lundin assesses the results from the Alta extended well test (well 7220/11-5S) and the Topseis…
Hydrocarbons in Gjøkåsen Deep?
Upstream writes on Monday that Equinor has confirmed that it has encountered hydrocarbons at the high profile Gjøkåsen Deep well in the southeastern Barents Sea. Equinor does not want to…
«We’ve drilled a volcano»
Well 6307/1-1S was drilled by Lundin Norway and finished in December 2018 (Read also “No reservoir no oil”). The target of the exploration well was the Silfari dome in the…
The programme is (almost) finalized
The topic of this year’s conference is “Recent Advances in Exploration Technology”. For “dummies”, we might add, but this is not the truth. Rather, the intention is to present technological…
Technology is Key
Recent advances in exploration technology is in the focus for the 3rd time in “the May conference” (NCS Exploration) in Fornebu outside Oslo. However, the emphasis will be on how…
Exploring near Edvard Grieg
Exploration well 16/1-31 S and A is a dual branch well targeting both the Jorvik and Tellus East prospects on the eastern side of the Edvard Grieg field in PL338…
Dry – despite EM anomaly
Lundin’s Pointer and Setter prospects in the Barents Sea resulted in another disappointment in the Barents Sea. Oil shows were encountered at various intervals in the Pointer (Stø formation) prospect,…
Revival of the injectite play
Several fields in the Norwegian and British part of the North Sea are producing from sand injectite reservoirs. Availability of broadband seismic data and successful production from earlier developments has…
First well on Gjøkåsen is dry
Equinor has completed the drilling of well 7132/2-1 Gjøkåsen Shallow in PL 857 in the southeastern part of the Barents Sea. The well is dry. The target was to prove…
TopSeis over Castberg area
The Greater Castberg TopSeis™ survey of 5000 square km, covering existing and newly awarded licenses and open acreage, will be acquired and processed in 2019 with final delivery estimated in…