Statoil receives consent for exploration drilling in block 7121
STAVANGER -- Statoil has received consent to drill exploration well 7121/8-1 in production licence 849. The well is to be drilled in a prospect named Blåmann, with these geographical cooordinates:
- 71o 25' 43.88" N
- 21o 38' 26.50" E
The drill site is in 376 m of water, around 113 km north-west of Hammerfest and 25 km from Goliat.
The drilling work is scheduled to take 25 days. The consent also covers drilling of a possible sidetrack, with the designation 7171/8-1A, which will take 13 days.
The well is to be drilled by Songa Enabler, which is a semisubmersible drilling rig of the CAT D type. It was delivered by the Daewoo yard in South Korea in 2016, is registered in Norway and classified by DNV-GL. Songa Offshore received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the facility from the PSA in July 2016.
