RWE Dea has announced that the Luno appraisal well 16/1-10, located in production license PL 338 in the Norwegian North Sea, has been successfully tested.
According to the company, the well was drilled to appraise the Luno field discovered in late 2007 with well 16/1-8. The appraisal well has confirmed the extension of the Luno field to the north east.
It said that, the well was tested with a flow rate of approximately 4,000 barrels of oil per day on a 54/64 choke. A comprehensive data acquisition program including multiple cores was successfully acquired.
The results of the appraisal well will be analyzed and incorporated into a revised resource estimate for the Luno field which was indicated as within a range of 65 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) to 190mmboe gross recoverable following the discovery well.
The oil company said that tThe appraisal well was drilled with the Bredford Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig to a total vertical depth of 2,125m below sea level in a water depth of 110m.
