Norway’s Most Northerly discovery made

This month Norway’s most northerly gas discovery was made. Located in the Norwegian Arctic of the Barents Sea, the wildcat well 7225/3-1 is estimated to contain between 10 and 50 billion standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable gas.

To find more information on this discovery with ArcticWeb, go to www.arcticweb.com, click on “Browse Data“, and enter the search term “7225/3-1“. The results appear in the left-hand column of your search results. To view the well, click on the result for “wellbores” under the NPD data source. Scroll to the far right of your screen and click on the globe icon at the end of the results line to see the wellbore on the map. This gives you context on this very northerly discovery!

To view news, go back to your search results and click on “news” under PTIL or NPD. It will bring you to the NPD News Release

For other search ideas, plug in wellbore numbers, operator names, and more!

Total's gas discovery in well 7225/3-1 in the Barent's Sea (the yellow dot). Click on Map picture to zoom in!