Discovery In Aldous Appraisal Well
Statoil ASA, as the operator (40%), together with its partners Petoro AS (30%), Det norske oljeselskap ASA (20%) and Lundin Norway AS (10%), is about to complete the drilling of appraisal well 16/2-10 in the Aldous Major South structure (PL 265) on the Utsira Height in the North Sea. Drilled by the Transocean Leader drilling rig, appraisal well 16/2-10 has proven an oil column in a range between 50 and 55 m in Jurassic sandstone, and is located 4.2 km north of discovery well 16-2/8.
Statoil has earlier communicated preliminary volumes for the Aldous structure in PL 265 to be between 400 and 800 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. Statoil will present updated volume estimates when the well data have been fully analysed. Well 16/2-10 is the sixth exploration well in the licence.