Norway’s DNO ASA has made a gas condensate discovery at the Norma prospect in the Norwegian North Sea license PL984, in which the company has a 30 percent interest.
A preliminary assessment of the discovery indicates recoverable gross resources in the range of 25 million to 130 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) on a P90-P10 basis, averaging 70 MMboe, in a Jurassic reservoir zone with sandstones high quality , DNO said in a press release Tuesday.
Located 12.43 miles (20 kilometers) northwest of Balder’s core and 18.64 miles (30 kilometers) south of central Alvheim, Norma is located in an area with extensive infrastructure in the central part of North Sea, with anchorage options that offer potential. marketing channels, according to the release.
DNO has identified additional exploration prospects within the same license that it says have significantly reduced the risk of Norma’s results.
“Following our six discoveries in the Troll-Gjoa area since 2021, three of which were made this year, including Carmen, Heisenberg and Rover Sor, Norma opens new and exciting work for DNO in the North Sea,” said the executive chairman of DNO. Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani said. “At the risk of teasing our crack explorers, the string of recent discoveries validates DNO’s Norwegian offshore exploration strategy.”
The Norma prospect is the first high pressure and temperature exploration well operated by DNO. It was drilled to a vertical depth of 15,748 feet (4,800 meters) with the Deepsea Yantai drilling rig. At 15,256 feet (4,650 meters), the discovery well encountered a 52.5-foot (16-meter) hydrocarbon column in a 65.6-foot (20-meter) gross reservoir section in Jurassic sandstones, said the company
According to DNO, the discovery is considered a play for deep turbiditic sands in this area given the exceptionally good quality of the deposit it found. Plans are underway to further define the license’s discovery and upside potential. Prior to additional appraisal drilling, the company will execute enhanced seismic imaging and remapping to identify an optimal location for the next well. Plug and drop operations began this week. Deepsea Yantai will move to drill the company’s next well, evaluating the Ophelia discovery in 2022, in which it owns a 10% stake, DNO said.
DNO was awarded a stake in PL984 in 2019 through its wholly owned subsidiary DNO Norge AS. The other license partners are Source Energy AS, Equinor Energy AS and Var Energi ASA with a 20% interest each, and Aker BP ASA with a 10% interest.
In early August, DNO restarted production at its flagship Tawke field in Kurdistan, Iraq, following a four-month shutdown caused by the closure of the Iraq-Turkey pipeline export route, due to a “strong demand for oil Tawke”, the company. he said in an earlier press release.
The Tawke field averages 40,000 barrels per day of oil, while the nearby Peshkabir field with the same license remains shut, DNO said. Half of Tawke’s production is delivered to the Kurdistan Regional Government and the rest is sold by DNO on behalf of contractors to local trading companies, with the oil transported by tankers, according to the press release.
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