Italian oil company ENI drills dry in the Barents Sea
ENI Norge is now plugging the well that was drilled about 10 kilometers southwest of the Goliat field off Norway’s Arctic coastline.
The drilling, which by the Italian oil company ENI is named Goliat Eye, was done to investigate possible extra reserves of oil in the area where the currently only operational oil-production in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea takes place.
«The well is classified as dry,» the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate reports.
Drilled with Scarebo 8 platform, the well turned out to be yet another disappointment for the oil industry in the Barents Sea. Earlier, Statoil has found little oil at at the company’s test-drillings this season.
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Finland: Nord Stream 2 applies for Finnish building permit to build gas pipeline, Yle News
Norway: ‘We will come back’, Statoil says after disappointing results in Barents Sea, The Independent Barents Observer
Russia: Chinese company confirms interest in trans-Arctic shipping to Arkhangelsk, The Independent Barents Observer
Sweden: Volvo to go all electric starting in 2019, Radio Sweden
United States: U.S. transportation secretary announces efforts to speed up project development in Alaska, Alaska Dispatch News
