Shell gets Norwegian well thumbs-up

On the job: Transocean Barents to sink probe for Shell off Norway

DET NORSKE

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Eoin O'Cinneide

 13 March 2013 14:37 GMT

Shell has been given the go-ahead by Norwegian authorities to drill a wildcat well at the at the high-pressure and high-temperature Onyx South prospect.

The semi-submersible Transocean Barents will sink the probe in production licence 255 after the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate handed the Anglo-Dutch supermajor a drilling permit.

The well, which is expected to take around 102 days to drill, is situated in 298 metres of water.

The semisub will move onto the job once it is finished drilling well 7218/11-1, the Darwin prospect, for Repsol after spudding early this month.

Shell’s new well, which will be the sixth to be drill on PL 255, is only 7 kilometres south-east of the Linnorm discovery probe.

The new well is to be drilled to a total…

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