The French company said the 22/16-6 well flowed at more than 8000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and is now being sidetracked to appraise the full size of the find.
The probe was drilled by the jack-up Transocean Galaxy II, which also made the promising Marconi-Vorlich discovery last year. GDF Suez E&P UK managing director Ruud Zoon said: “[Dalziel] is another encouraging discovery by GDF Suez following on from a successful exploration campaign in 2014.
