StatoilHydro discovers gas in the Barents Sea  

Norway based StatoilHydro has confirmed the existence of gas in the Ververis prospect in the Barents Sea. The explorer struck gas in Ververis during the drilling of exploration well 7226/2-1 in the Barents Sea.

StatoilHydro, the operator of the block performed the drilling in 347 metres of water by the Polar Pioneer drilling rig.

This is the 13th discovery on the Norwegian continental shelf that StatoilHydro is involved in this year.

Bente Fotland at StatoilHydro’s Harstad office says, it is of course promising that we have discovered gas, but the drilling was performed in a relatively complex formation. We therefore need to perform more analyses and evaluations in order to determine the resource potential of the discovery.

Ververis is the first well in production licence 395, which was awarded in the 19th licensing round in 2006.