Equinor makes two new hydrocarbon finds in Norwegian North Sea

Equinor has made 2 caller commercialized hydrocarbon discoveries successful the Norwegian North Sea, with lipid recovered adjacent the Troll country and state and condensate discovered successful the Sleipner area.

The lipid find was reported astatine the Byrding C prospect, situated 5km north-west of the Fram tract wrong the Troll region. This caller find holds an estimated 4 to 8 cardinal barrels of recoverable oil.

Meanwhile, the Frida Kahlo find, drilled from the Sleipner B level north-west of Sleipner Vest, is believed to incorporate betwixt 5 and 9 cardinal barrels of lipid equivalent (mboe) successful state and condensate. Plans bespeak that accumulation from the Frida Kahlo good volition statesman arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent month.

Drilling of the Byrding C good was executed by the COSL Innovator rig successful accumulation licence 090 HS. Equinor Energy owns a 75% stock successful the artifact portion INPEX Idemitsu Norge holds the remaining 25%.

The Frida Kahlo find resides wrong licence 046 (Sleipner licence), operated by Equinor Energy (58.3%), with Orlen Upstream Norway (24.4%) and Vår Energi (17.2%) arsenic partners.

Recent enactment successful the Troll country has resulted successful aggregate finds.

Since 2018, Equinor has participated successful drilling 26 exploration wells crossed the extended Troll region, which encompasses Fram. According to Equinor, 19 of these wells person yielded discoveries, giving a find complaint exceeding 70%.

In the Sleipner area, 4 consecutive exploration wells – Langemann, Lofn, Frida Kahlo and Sissel – person produced state and condensate discoveries implicit a three-month period.

Combined assets estimates for these 4 finds scope from 55mboe to 140mboe. The Lofn and Langemann discoveries unneurotic marked Equinor’s largest operated find connected the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) successful the erstwhile year.

Equinor Sleipner country exploration and accumulation vice-president Cecilie Rønning said: “These discoveries are the effect of a targeted exploration effort successful the Sleipner area. Sleipner is an important hub for state exports to Europe, and we indispensable bash everything we tin to place the remaining resources successful the area. The discoveries springiness grounds for optimism arsenic we program to drill 3 further exploration wells and 2 caller accumulation wells successful the country this year.”

All 4 caller Sleipner country discoveries were made wrong the Hugin formation. Future improvement plans for Langemann, Sissel and Lofn impact subsea tie-backs to existing infrastructure, targeting start-up wrong 2 to 3 years.

Ocean bottommost node seismic information supplied by TGS and Axxis, and processed by Viridien, on with four-dimensional seismic surveys processed by TGS (PGS), were utilized to enactment these exploration efforts.