Aker BP drills dry hole near Bøyla field
Aker BP ASA drilled a dry well in production license (PL) 869 near Bøyla field in the North Sea.
Well 24/12-8 S, Rumpetroll South, was the sixth in the license and was drilled by the Deepsea Nordkapp rig to a vertical depth of 2,263 m subsea in 118 m of water (OGJ Online, Mar. 15, 2024) It was terminated in the Heimdal formation in the Palaeocene.
The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Eocene reservoir rocks in the Balder formation. The well encountered formation in a total of about 97 m, 4 m of which was sandstone with very good reservoir quality. A small quantity of non-producible gas was proven at the top of the reservoir.
The well is classified as dry and has been plugged.
Aker BP is operator of PL869 (80%) with partner Concedo 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).