Equinor and partners Wintershall Dea and Petoro have made a commercial gas discovery in Production License 1128 with its Obelix Upflank well. The find is estimated to hold between 2.0 and 11.0 Bcm of recoverable gas, or about 12.6 to 69.2 million BOE.
Exploration wells 6605/1-2 S&A in the Norwegian Sea were drilled by the drillship Deepsea Stavanger. The discovery was made 23 km south of the Irpa gas discovery, and 350 km west of Sandnessjøen.
Equinor said this was the first discovery made on the Norwegian continental shelf in 2023, and the first wells in the Equinor-operated production license awarded in the 2020 APA round.
Irpa is a subsea development that will be tied back to the Aasta Hansteen platform and extend the life of that project by 7 years.