PA Resources Strikes Gas Offshore Denmark

PA Resources has confirmed its recent gas discovery in the Danish North Sea.

Drilling at the Broder Tuck exploration well (5504/20-4), located approximately 10 kilometres south of Gorm Field in the Danish part of the North Sea, encountered hydrocarbon pay in the primary Middle Jurassic target.

PA revealed an "additional hydrocarbon column" at a sidetrack to the Broader Tuck well,  680 metres away from the company's mid-July strike.

Sample analyses from the initial exploration well have indicated a higher than expected condensate content.

While the company increased the expected condensate content from the initial find, the twin discoveries have established a gross hydrocarbon column "of at least 360 metres".

The initial find revealed a column of at least 230 metres with 17 metres of net pay in high quality Middle Jurassic sandstone. In contrast, the new discovery, also in the Middle Jurassic sandstone play at the new sidetrack, is less well developed than in the initial wellbore", the company said.

"Ongoing sample analyses from the initial exploration well confirmed the discovered hydrocarbons are of high quality gas with condensate of approximately 44º API gravity at a ratio of approximately 80-90  barrels of condensate per million standard cubic feet of gas," PA stated.

Bo Askvik, President and CEO at PA Resources, comments: “We are pleased to have confirmed additional hydrocarbons with the sidetrack and to be able to update on the condensate content of the gas, which exceeds our expectations and adds value to the find. This is an exciting discovery for PA Resources and we now look forward to the Lille John exploration well.”

The company now plans to abandon Broader Tuck and plug it with the Ensco 70 rig moving on to drill the Lille John exploration well 8 kms to the south.

Source: PA Resources