VNG Norge has made an oil discovery in the main bore of the Boomerang exploration well offshore Norway.
Well 6406/12-4S on Boomerang was drilled close to the Pil discovery and encountered a 26m gross Upper Jurassic intra-Spekk/Rogn sandstones with good reservoir properties and moveable oil, says partner Faroe Petroleum. Preliminary estimates of recoverable volumes put the find at 13-31 MMboe.
Hydrocarbons were also confirmed above the Pil oil-water contact in an 80m gross interval of Melke age sandstone of varying reservoir quality, according to Faroe. The main Pil reservoir sandstone was encountered within the water leg, as planned, giving important appraisal information for the Pil development, the firm adds.
A side-track exploration well, 6406/12-4A, was drilled into the southern segment of the Boomerang prospect and encountered about 530m gross thickness of Jurassic sandstones with poor reservoir quality. The well had indications of hydrocarbons but the presence of moveable hydrocarbons was not proven.
The 6406/12-4 wells were drilled on the Halten Terrace, about 33km south west of the Njord field and 1.7km south east of the Pil discovery well. The Boomerang well will now be plugged and abandoned and the rig will be moved approximately 6km to the north east to drill the Blink prospect (6406/12-5S). Blink is an independent structural and stratigraphic prospect. The well will target analogous Upper Jurassic reservoirs to Pil, Bue and Draugen.
The drilling campaign is being operated by VNG Norge (30%) using the Transocean Arctic semisubmersible drilling rig with partners Spike Exploration AS (30%), Faroe Petroleum (25%) and Pure E&P Norway AS (15%).
Graham Stewart, Faroe's CEO said: “We are pleased to announce the results from the Boomerang well, which adds further resources to the Pil area from a new reservoir. This appraisal and exploration well has provided a significant amount of important data and again proven how prospective the Pil area is.
“While we carry out further evaluation, the exploration campaign continues with drilling of the Blink prospect, due to spud shortly. Blink is an exciting independent prospect targeted as a potentially large addition to the already significant Pil and Bue discoveries announced in 2014, all of which are located in the same license.”