The well on the production license PL265 was spud to a vertical depth of 1,960m below the sea surface mainly to investigate the thickness and properties in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks near the top of the Johan Sverdrup oil discovery.
Statoil also drilled the 16/2-14 appraisal well to confirm the presence of reservoir rocks in the Triassic Hegre Group and examine the reservoir quality in the Cretaceous Shetland Group and to gather information from the stratigraphic sequence above the reservoir to evaluate further field development plans.
The delineation well encountered 30m oil column in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks, and confirmed good quality, but it did not encounter oil and water contact.
The reservoir quality lacked both in Triassic and Cretaceous groups, and the information from the stratigraphic sequence was collected at four levels.
Statoil Norway exploration senior vice president Gro Haatvedt said the appraisal well confirmed good reservoir in the oil field.
"Mapping the reservoir in the Johan Sverdrup discovery represents one of the main challenges as there are significant variations in reservoir quality and thickness in various parts of the discovery," Haatvedt added.
