Equinor drills dry well near North Sea Snorre field

Equinor Energy AS has plugged a well near Snorre field and will move the Deepsea Stavanger rig to drill another North Sea well.

Exploration well 34/4-18 S—the 14th in production license 057—was drilled about 7 km northwest of Snorre and 160 km west of Florø to vertical and measured depths of 2,963 and 3,015 meters, respectively, subsea. It was terminated in the Raude formation from the Late Triassic. Water depth at the site is 360 m. The well is dry with no traces of hydrocarbons.

The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic (the Statfjord group). The well encountered about 24 m of sandstone rocks in the Eiriksson formation (the Statfjord Group) from the Early Jurassic with good reservoir quality.

It also encountered about 25 m of sandstone rocks in the Raude formation (the Statfjord group) from the Late Triassic, with moderate to good reservoir quality.

Data acquisition was carried out.

The rig is moving on to drill wildcat well 35/10-8 S in production license 293 B, where Equinor is operator.