Lundin Petroleum Completes Drilling of Wildcat Well in Norwegian North Sea

Lundin Petroleum completed the drilling of well 16/4-7 on PL544 in the Norwegian North Sea, according to a note released by the company on Tuesday.

The well was drilled about 14 km northeast of the Sleipner Øst field in the middle part of the North Sea, northwest of Norway. 

‘The well encountered no hydrocarbons and is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole,’ reads the note, adding that the well was drilled to a vertical depth of approximately 2,6000 metre below the sea surface.

Lunding\ Norway AS is the operator of PL544 with 40% working interest. The partners are Bayerngas Norge AS and Explora Petroleum AS with 30% interest each. The well is the first exploration well in PL544. The licence was awarded in APA 2009.