Dry well in the North Sea (34/6-9 S)

Wildcat well 34/6-9 S ("Avbitertang") was drilled in production licence 554, 35 kilometres northeast of the Snorre field and 125 kilometres west of Florø.

This production licence was awarded in 2010 (APA 2009).

34/6-9 S is the ninth wildcat well drilled within the production licence's acreage. This is the third exploration well drilled in this area this year, and like wells 34/8-20 S ("Narvi Nord") and 34/6-8 S ("Garantiana NV"), it was also dry.

There is considerable activity around production licence 554, both within exploration and discovery development. Equinor has conducted a major exploration campaign in the area along with Aker BP and Vår Energi.

These companies also have ownership interests in several other production licences in the area, including 932, 1218 and 1215.

Well 34/6-9 S was drilled using the COSL Innovator rig.

Geological information

The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks in the Cook Formation.

The well encountered the Cook Formation in a total of about 106 metres, 39 metres of which with moderate to good reservoir quality. The well is classified as dry.

Well 34/6-9 S was drilled to respective measured and vertical depths of 4042 and 4001 metres below sea level, and was terminated in the Burton Formation in the Lower Jurassic.

Data was collected, including pressure points in the Cook Formation.

Water depth at the site is 387 metres. The well has been permanently plugged and abandoned.