Lundin Petroleum has been busy with the bit off Norway and it has just spudded the Neiden prospect exploration well 7220/6-2 in PL609 in the Barents Sea with the Island Innovator.

The Neiden prospect is located in the northern part of PL609, about 60 km northeast of the Alta (32/11) discovery, which Lundin has just appraised with two wells.

Neiden will be drilled to 1,350 m below mean sea level, and the well is expected to take about 40 days.

On Alta, appraisal wells 7220/11-3 and 7220/11-3 A were drilled on the eastern flank of the original discovery in PL609 and hit a gross hydrocarbon column of 74 m, of which 30 m was gas and 44 m was oil in reservoir rocks of varying quality.

The Alta discovery is located 10 km to 20 km northeast of Lundin Petroleum’s Gohta (32/11) find. There is no infrastructure in the area.

The Alta discovery well 7220/11-1 was completed in October 2014. The preliminary evaluation of the gross recoverable oil and gas resource range from the Alta discovery well after the first well was estimated at 125 MMboe to 400 MMboe.

The appraisal well 7220/11-3 and sidetrack was located about 4 km south of the original Alta discovery well 7220/11-1 and about 3 km northeast of the previous appraisal well 7220/11-2.

Meanwhile, Lundin has resumed exploration drilling off Malaysia with the spud of Mengkuang-1 exploration well in licence PM307.

The well will target hydrocarbons in Miocene-aged sands 75 km to the northwest of the Bertam (31/22) Field operated by Lundin Malaysia.

Mengkuang-1 will be drilled with the West Prospero jackup rig to a total depth of about 1,300 m below mean sea level. The drilling of the well is expected to take about 30 days.

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