Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro and partners in two licenses in the northern North Sea have made a gas and oil discovery at the Pan-Pandura prospect near the producing Visund field.
Pandora lies in production License PL 120 and PL 120B, where ConocoPhillips (13 percent) and Norwegian state entity Petoro (17 percent) take up stakes alongside operator StatoilHydro (60 percent).
It’s the second hydrocarbon find for the Nordic country’s energy champion StatoilHydro and the 20th for the company in 2008. Last week, exploration well 6707/10-2S in the Norwegian Sea found gas in a promising find called Haklang which piqued the interest of ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips in the underexplored Norwegian Sea with up to 15 billion cubic metres of gas.
The Pandora well showed a 35-metre gas column above a 25 m oil column, and now a sidetrack, well 34/8-14 A is planned. The Pandora discovery well was the 13th in PL 120, awarded in 1985, was drilled down to 3,077 m from the 290 m depths of the surrounding sea.
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