Lundin Petroleum’s Gohta discovery – it’s first oil find in the Barents Sea offshore Norway – has flow-tested at a rate of approximately 4,300 b/d.

Well 7120/1-3, operated by Lundin, was drilled in Production Licence 492 approximately 35 km (22 miles) north of the Snohvit field. The well proved oil in contact with an overlying gas cap. The purpose of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in Triassic sandstone reservoirs and Permo-Carboniferous carbonate reservoir, it said.
In the carbonate reservoir the well found a 25 m (82 ft) gross gas column above a 75 m (246 ft) gross oil column in karstified and dolomitized limestone.

The drillstem test produced a flow rate of approximately 4,300 b/d of oil through a 44/64-inch choke with a gas oil ratio of 29 cm (1,040 cf) per barrel.

The preliminary evaluation of the gross recoverable oil and gas resources from the Gohta discovery is estimated at between 105 MMboe and 235 MMboe.

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