Hurricane Energy said it has spudded a well on the Lancaster field West of Shetland.
The company said well 205/21a-7 is located on licence P1368 in which Hurricane has a 100% interest.
The well was spudded using the Transocean Spitsbergen drilling rig.
It is the pilot well in a two-well programme which was designed to refine the Lancaster resource range and provide a second future production well and provide new information to help plan the Lancaster field development.
Dr Robert Trice, chief executive of Hurricane, said:”This is an extremely exciting moment in Hurricane’s development as we embark on a drilling programme that will not only complete the remaining well stock required for an Early Production System, but will also help refine our Contingent Resource range for Lancaster – currently 62-456 MMboe – and thereby facilitate a final investment decision and help us better plan for the field development. We look forward to reporting on operations in due course.”
