A second wildcat well by OMV drilled in the Barents Sea has come up dry.
The well, around 5km northwest of the Wisting Central discovery the company made last month, failed to yield any significant results.
The Austrian firm had been looking to build on the 160million barrel find at Wisting Central in early September.
The new well, in a deeper independent structure, was drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible rig. It has now been abandoned.