New oil and gas discovery by the North Sea Troll and Fram area

The licence owners are Equinor (51%), DNO (29%), Idemitsu (10%) and Longboat Energy (10%). Temporarily called Kveikje, this is the sixth discovery in this area since the autumn of 2019. Up to more than 300 million boe were proven in the five former discoveries.

Lill H. Brusdal, Equinor’s vice president for the Troll area said: “We are very pleased to make another discovery in this area that we regard to be commercial. As we did with the other discoveries in this area, we will consider tying this discovery to the Troll B or C platform. By utilising the existing infrastructure, we will be able to recover these volumes at a low cost and with low emissions.”

There were several drilling targets in the exploration well. After Kveikje was discovered, drilling continued to the next target in the upper part of the Cretaceous stratigraphic sequence. Smaller deposits of petroleum were discovered that are considered as non-commercial. The well has been permanently plugged and abandoned. The well was drilled by Deepsea Stavanger.

Plans call for Equinor to drill another exploration well in this area this year.

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