Lundin Petroleum's exploration well 25/10-12S on the Kopervik prospect is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole.
The well was drilled in production license 625, 175km west of Haugesund on the Norwegian west coast and about 20km northwest of the Johan Sverdrup discovery.
The main objective of well 25/10-12S was to test the reservoir properties and hydrocarbon potential of the Upper and Middle Jurassic Sandstones in the Kopervik sub-basin.
The well encountered Hugin formation sandstones with very good reservoir quality and poorer developed sands in the Draupne formation.
The upper part of the Upper Jurassic was cored and the entire pre-Cretaceous sequence pressure sampled. Oil shows were observed in cores. The well is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole.
The well was drilled by the drilling rig Island Innovator to a total depth of 2540m below mean sea level and was terminated in sediments of Triassic age. After completion the drilling rig will continue to the Lundin Norway operated PL674BS to drill the Zulu prospect.
PL625 license was awarded in APA 2011 and the well was the first exploration well on the license. Lundin Norway is operator with 40% working interest, with partners Bayerngas Norge AS, Maersk Oil Norway AS and Petoro AS, each with 20% working interest.