VNG Norge’s Blink exploration well in the Norwegian Sea has failed to unearth oil and gas.
The objective of well 6406/12-5 S was to test the hydrocarbon potential of the Upper Jurassic reservoirs analogous to the Pil, Bue, Boomerang and Draugen field reservoirs.
According to Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the project, the well encountered a 557- meter gross section of Upper Jurassic sandstone following a technical sidetrack (6406/12-5 S T2). The well reached a total vertical depth of 3,710 metres below sea level and preliminary analysis from wireline logs, pressure and fluid sampling shows that the well encountered clean water-wet sandstones with good reservoir properties but with no indications of hydrocarbons.
The 6406/12-5 S (Blink) well was drilled on the Halten Terrace, approximately 27 kilometers south-west of the Njord field and five kilometers north-east of the Pil discovery well. Well 6406/12-5 S followed on directly from the Boomerang exploration well which encountered a 26 metre gross Upper Jurassic intra-Spekk/Rogn sandstone containing estimated recoverable resources of between 13 and 31 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Graham Stewart , Chief Executive of Faroe Petroleum said: “Whilst the results of the Blink well, the last in this year’s campaign, are disappointing we look forward to advancing the options for monetizing the significant combined Pil, Bue and Boomerang discoveries, on which the Blink well result has no bearing.