Centrica Resources Norway, operator of production license 405, in the southeastern part of the Norwegian North Sea, has completed drilling wildcat well 8/10-6 S. The well is dry, said the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
The well was drilled 13 km southwest of the Ula field. The purpose of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (Ula) in a new segment southwest of oil found 8/10-4 S detected in 2011.
The well encountered 55m of sandstone in the Ula formation with good reservoir quality, but hydrocarbons were not found. The well is the seventh exploration well in PL405, awarded in APA 2006. The well was drilled in 66m water depth, to a vertical depth of 1945m below sea level and terminated in Zechsteingruppen Permian. The well has been plugged and abandoned.
Well 8/10-6 S was drilled by the drilling facility Mærsk Giant.