The 7220/7-1 well, drilled by the Aker Barents rig, has proved a 48m gas column and a 128m oil column.
Statoil estimates that the volumes in the Havis prospect in production licence PL532 will be between 200 and 300 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalents.
The provisional, updated total volume estimate for the Skrugard and Havis discoveries in PL532 is in the region of 400 to 600 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalents.
Statoil president and CEO Helge Lund said Havis is the company’s second high impact oil discovery in the Barents Sea in nine months.
"The discovery’s volume and reservoir properties make it Skrugard’s twin. Skrugard and Havis open up a new petroleum province in the North," Lund said.
Statoil operates PL532 with an ownership share of 50%, and its licence partners are Eni Norge (30%) and Petoro (20%).
