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development of the capacity to permanently Var Energi makes discovery The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
store up to 8 million tonnes CO2 per year said Friday that Lundin, as the operator of
from 2030, thereby potentially accounting in Barents Sea production licence 981 where the well is
for all the CO2 storage proposed in the located, was is in the process of concluding
Danish Climate Program as presented by the Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi the drilling of wildcat well formally known as
Danish government in 2020. The CO2 will be has made a smaller than expected discovery well16/4-12.
captured onshore and transported to the sea at the Rødhette exploration well in the North The well was drilled about one kilometer
to be injected into discontinued oil and gas Sea, off Norway. west of the Solveig field in the North Sea and
reservoirs beneath the Danish North Sea. Vår Energi’s partner Longboat said on 190 kilometers west of Stavanger.
In Greensand Phase 1, the four initial October 11 that the well formally named The well’s primary exploration target
consortium partners including Maersk 7122/6-3 S had encountered a 29-meter was to prove petroleum in sandstones in
Drilling demonstrated the conceptual hydrocarbon column in the primary target in the Ty Formation from the Palaeocene.
feasibility of developing an offshore CO2 the Middle Jurassic Stø Formation. The top of The secondary exploration target was to
storage site at the Nini West field. This the reservoir was reached close to prognosis prove petroleum in porous dolomite in the
assessment was independently certified by the containing high net-to-gross, moderate to Zechstein Group from the Permian Age.
DNV classification society.. good quality sandstone. Data acquisition The well encountered 58 meters of
indicates a gas column of approximately 18 sandstone in the Ty Formation with good to
meters in the well over an oil rim. very good reservoir quality.
Wärtsilä systems for two place the size of the discovery between well encountered 12 meters of dolomitic rocks
In the secondary exploration target, the
“Preliminary estimates by the operator
Capital Gas LNG carriers 9 and 12 mmboe recoverable (gross). As in the Zechstein Group with poor to moderate
reservoir quality.
the Rødhette volumes are at the lower end
The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä of pre-drill expectations, both existing The offshore exploration well also
will supply four shaft generator systems discoveries and additional prospectivity in encountered two intervals of sandstone from
for two LNG Carrier vessels that the Sout the area will be considered in the evaluation an undefined age between the Cretaceous and
Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries of the commercial development potential Triassic. The upper interval has a thickness
is building for the Greek ship management of Rødhette through existing regional of 16 meters with moderate to good reservoir
service provider Capital Gas. infrastructure,” Longboat said. quality. The lower interval has a thickness of
Each of the two 174,000 cubic metres The well was drilled 30 km north of the 15 meters with good to very good reservoir
LNG carriers will feature two 1.9 megawatts Vår Energi’s Goliat field and 5 km south quality.
Wärtsilä shaft generators. of the Tornerose discovery, using Saipem’s However, NPD said that the well was dry.
The shaft generator systems are to Scarabeo 8 semi-submersible drilling rig. This This is the first exploration well in production
specifically provide power take-off from the was the first exploration well for the recently licence 981, which was awarded in APA 2018.
main engines. established Longboat Energy. Lundin drilled the well to a vertical depth
Wärtsilä received this order back in August Helge Hammer, Chief Executive of of 2141 meters below sea level and terminated
2021, and Hyundai Heavy will receive the Longboat, commented: “We are pleased it in the Zechstein Group from the Permian
equipment in 2022. to have made a hydrocarbon discovery Age.
By enabling power take-off, the systems with our first exploration well following The water depth at the site is 100 meters.
allow the main engine to generate electricity our transformative acquisitions made this The well will be permanently plugged and
for onboard use, thus reducing fuel summer. We look forward to working together abandoned.
consumption, and lowering emission levels. with the operator to use the data collected to Lundin used the Deepsea Stavanger semi-
They also are improving both the vessels’ assess the development potential for Rødhette submersible drilling rig for the drilling at the
energy efficiency design index (EEDI) and alongside existing discoveries and further Merckx prospect. The rig will now move on to
future carbon intensity index (CII). exploration potential in the area.” drill wildcat well 17/8-1 in production licence
“In aiming to continue improving our 976 in the North Sea, where Lundin Energy
fleet efficiency and reduce our environmental Norway AS is the operator.
footprint, we have decided to adopt the latest Lundin drills dry well off
available technologies. The installation of
advanced shaft generator systems was one Norway
of the investments we are making in this
direction, ” said Miltos Zisis, managing Swedish oil company Lundin Energy has
director of Capital Gas.. failed to find hydrocarbons at its Merckx
prospect in the North Sea, offshore Norway.

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