Equinor drills dry hole in Cambozola well
Equinor Energy AS drilled a dry well in license PL1049 in the Northern North Sea, according to a June 2 release by Longboat Energy Norge AS.
Cambozola exploration well 34/9-1S targeted Lower Cretaceous turbidite sand lobes and had the potential to be a play opener. The well was drilled to a total vertical depth of 4,393 m below sea level. Background gas readings were recorded throughout the overlying section, but the well failed to encounter any effective reservoir. Analysis of the data collected remains ongoing to understand the observed bright seismic amplitude anomaly and any remaining Lower Cretaceous prospectivity in the area.
The well will be plugged and abandoned.
Equinor is operator at PL1049 (35%) with partners Longboat Energy (25%), Petoro AS (20%), and Sval Energi AS (20%).
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).