Sweden-based Lundin Petroleum has discovered oil in the exploration well 16/4-9 S on the Luno II North prospect, offshore Norway.

Located in a separate sub-basin northwest of the Luno II discovery in PL359 in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), the well encountered a gross oil column of 23m in reasonable quality Jurassic/Triassic conglomeratic sandstones.

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The appraisal well 16/4-9 S is the fourth well drilled in PL359 to a total depth of 2,305m below mean sea level in a water depth of 100m.

Drilled using the semi-submersible drilling rig Bredford Dolphin, the well will be permanently plugged and abandoned.

"The well will be permanently plugged and abandoned."

The well is located on the south-western flank of Utsira High, 15km south of the Edvard Grieg field operated by Lundin Petroleum and 4km north-west of the Luno II discovery well 16/4-6 S.

The company performed data acquisition and sampling in the reservoir including conventional coring and fluid sampling.

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In the oil zone that is producing at a rate of 1,000 barrels of oil per day through a 32/64in choke, Lundin performed one production test (DST).

The Luno II North discovery represents the southern part of the prospect and its gross contingent resource range is estimated to be 12 million to 26 million barrels of oil equivalents.

The gross contingent resource range of Luno II discovery is expected to range between 27 million and 71 million barrels of oil equivalents.

Lundin Norway operates PL359 with a 50% working interest and the other partners include OMV (Norge) with 20%, Statoil Petroleum with 15% and Wintershall Norge with 15% working interest.