AKER BP has made a gas dis-covery in the Norwegian Sea near its producing Skarv field where it recently started a "blowdown" process which enables increased natural gas exports to Europe. In a brief statement the oper-ator said it had completed drilling of the Storjo exploration well in production licence 261, and the well had hit gas in several geolo-gical formations. The preliminary estimate of recoverable gas is between 25 million and 80 million barrels of oil equivalent, with further delin-eation of the discovery planned for 2023. Aker BP is the operator of PL261 with a 70% interest. Wintershall Dea is the partner with 30%. In late March this year, the partnership began a gas blow-down phase from two reservoir segments at the Skarv field fol-lowing nine years of gas injection to produce the field's oil reserves.
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