OMV drills dry well at North Sea Horatio prospect

OMV (Norge) AS has plugged the Horatio prospect in the North Sea. The well is classified as dry. 

Well 35/6-6, the first to be drilled in production license 1109, was drilled using the Transocean Norge rig to a vertical depth of 3,840 m subsea. It was terminated in the Åsgard formation in the Lower Cretaceous. Water depth at the site is 353 m. 

Horatio prospect geological information

The primary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Lower Cretaceous reservoir rocks in the Agat formation. The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Lower Cretaceous reservoir rocks in the Åsgard formation.

The well encountered the Agat formation with a total thickness of about 176 m, where a total of 79 m was sandstone layers with poor to moderate reservoir quality. Around 137 m were registered in the secondary exploration target, a total of 75 m of which were sandstone layers with poor to moderate quality. 

OMV is operator of the license with 30% interest. Partners are DNO Norge AS (30%), Pandion Energy AS (20%), and Aker BP ASA (20%).