This bucket A discovery and appraisal story adds another gas and condensate find to the Norwegian North Sea. Equinor, as operator, and partner Aker BP made the discovery at the Linga prospect in production license 782 S, about 16 kilometres northwest of the Balder field and 205 kilometres west of Stavanger.
The exploration well encountered gas and condensate in separate sandstone layers within the Late Jurassic Draupne Formation. The layers had a combined thickness of 13 metres and moderate reservoir quality. The well reached a vertical depth of 4,606 metres below sea level in 126 metres of water.
Equinor and Aker BP estimate recoverable resources at 0.1 million to 2.1 million standard cubic metres of oil equivalent. The well was not tested for formation flow, but the companies collected cores, hydrocarbon samples and extensive data. The licensees are reviewing these results alongside the other wells in the license before deciding what comes next.
Linga was the third well drilled in the license, which Norway awarded in 2015. The COSL Innovator semi submersible rig drilled the well and will next move to another Equinor exploration well in the northern North Sea. The result follows Equinor’s commercial Omega Sør Alfa oil discovery in the Snorre area and supports continued exploration near established infrastructure in the mature basin.