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March 24, 2017 · about 9 years ago

Statoil finds oil and gas near Gimle field

Norway’s Statoil has found oil and gas at its wildcat well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The company, operator of Gimle Unit and production licence 193, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 34/10-55 S. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the company encountered a tota

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The well was drilled from the Gullfaks C platform to a structure east of the Gimle field, about 7 kilometers northeast of the Gullfaks field and 7 kilometers south of the Visund Sør field in the northern part of the North Sea.

Preliminary calculations indicate that the discovery contains between 1 and 3 million standard cubic metres (Sm 3 ) of recoverable oil equivalents. The discovery will be produced from a subsequent development well from the Gullfaks C platform.

The well was not formation-tested, but data acquisition and sampling have been carried out.

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