Statoil makes further discovery in Barents sea

Statoil ASA together with its partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS have made a substantial oil discovery in the Havis prospect in the same licence as Skrugard (PL532) in the Barents Sea.

This is the second high-impact discovery in the North in nine months.

Well 7220/7-1, drilled by the drilling rig Aker Barents, has proved a 48 m gas column and a 128 m oil column.

Statoil estimates the volumes in Havis to be between 200 and 300 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalents. The provisional, updated total volume estimate for the Skrugard and Havis discoveries in PL532 is in the region of 400 - 600 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalents.

Havis lies approximately 7 kilometres southwest of the Skrugard discovery, made in April of last year. Havis lies within the same production licence, but forms an independent structure. There is no communication between the two discoveries.

Statoil has previously communicated that the Skrugard discovery will provide the basis for an independent development, with the Havis volumes the development project becomes even more robust. Going forward, the partnership will drill an appraisal well in the Skrugard discovery and assess further upside potential in the licence.

“The Havis discovery boosts the development of Skrugard as a versatile new centre with processing and transport capacity. We are about to realise the Barents Sea as a core area on the Norwegian continental shelf,” says Statoil’s Erik Strand Tellefsen, vice president for Skrugard development.

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