North Sea operator Lundin Petroleum is about to complete the appraisal of Gohta discovery in the Barents Sea.
The field was discovered in 2013 in the Permian formation about 35kilometres north of the Statoil-operated Snøhvit field.
The licence operator Lundin estimates the field holds resources of between 10 and 23 million standard cubic metres (scm) of recoverable oil and between eight and 15 billion scm of recoverable gas.
The appraisal well 7120/1-4 S was drilled to a vertical depth of 2490 meters below the sea surface and encountered 3m (10ft) of Upper Permian limestone conglomerate with good reservoir quality over fractured limestone with limited reservoir quality with gas, condensate and traces of oil in place.
Lundin conducted two formation tests on the find a 50m zone 23m below the estimated gas oil contact and a 10m thick gas zone.
Initial testing resulted in a production rate of 170,000 scm of gas per day in the oil zone and a production of 700 000 scm of gas and 140 scm of oil per day in the 10m thick gas and condensate zone.
The well will now be plugged and abandoned as Lundin moves on to drill a wildcat well in production licence 609.
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