The 1/5-5 wildcat, located on production licence 618, was drilled to a vertical depth of 5942 metres about 40 kilometres northwest of the Ekofisk field and 320 kilometres south-west of Stavanger.
The primary exploration target for the high-pressure, high-temperature well was to prove petroleum in the Ula formation and the secondary target was the Skagerrak formation.
"The well encountered about 80-metre thick sandstone in the Ula formation with moderate to poor reservoir quality," the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said.
