Exploration & Production
Faroe Petroleum's Butch East Dry, Butch South Prospective
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Faroe Petroleum has announced that drilling has reached target depth on the Centrica-operated Butch East exploration well 8/10-5S and a subsequent up-dip appraisal well 8/10-5A, the first of two back-to back-wells in Licence PL405, following up the Butch Main discovery (Faroe 15%).
The Butch East exploration well spudded on 29 December 2013 and reached total depth in 8/10-5A of 2,307 metres in the Zechstein salt formation. The well targeted sandstones of the Upper Jurassic reservoir of the Ula formation and whilst a good quality reservoir was confirmed, no hydrocarbons were encountered at this location.
Butch East, which is adjacent to the Company’s 2011 Butch discovery, is situated in approximately 65 metres of water depth in the Norwegian North Sea, close to significant existing…
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