Shell drilling two wells in Norwegian Sea - May 30, 2010

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryMay 2010

Vol. 15, No. 22

Week of May 30, 2010

Shell drilling two wells in Norwegian Sea

Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority, or PSA, has given consent to Shell to drill two exploration wells in the Norwegian Sea with the mobile drilling unit Aker Barents, PSA said in a release May 5.

The Aker Barents is a sixth-generation semi-submersible drilling facility capable of operations at water depths of up to 9,840 feet and in Arctic environments. It is owned and operated by Stavanger-based Aker Drilling.

Exploration well 6603/5-1S is located about 248 miles west of the town of Sandnessjoen. The water depth at the site is about 4,762 feet. The site of well 6604/10-1 has a depth of about 4,441 feet. Drilling of both wells was expected to start in May and last for up to 122 days.

—Sarah Hurst

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