Green light to Lundin for Barents Sea wildcat

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for a well in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.

The well 7221/4-1 will be drilled from Northern Drilling’s West Bollsta semi-submersible drilling rig.

The drilling programme for well 7221/4-1 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 609.

Lundin Norway is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 percent. Other licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum Norge with 30 percent and Wintershall Dea Norge with 30 percent interest.

The area in this licence consists of parts of blocks 7220/11, 7220/12, 7220/9, 7221/4 and 7220/6.

The well will be drilled 12 kilometres east of the 7220/6-2 discovery.

Production license 609 was awarded on the 13^th May 2011, in the 21st licensing round on the Norwegian shelf.

This is the 13th well to be drilled in the licence.

In February 2019 Lundin awarded a ten-well contract to the West Bollsta rig.

Source: Offshore Energy Today