EQUINOR has struck out again at the highly-touted Korpfjell prospect in the Barents Sea off Norway after a second wildcat bit the dust at a deeper target. The probe at Korpfjell Deep was drilled as a follow-up to the initial well drilled in 2017 at the Korpfjell prospect in Equinor-operated production licence 859 that turned up only a non-commercial gas find, even though analysts earlier believed it to hold resource potential of up to 10 billion barrels. The latest well, drilled by semi-submersible West Hercules eight kilometres south of Korpfjell, only encountered sandy and mainly tight intervals at targets in the Havert, Snadd and Kobbe formations, though some thin sandstone layers in the Triassic revealed traces of gas, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
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