Stockholm, 2016-11-22 08:30 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the Neiden exploration well 7220/6-2R as an oil and gas discovery. The well is located in PL609 approximately 60 km northeast of the Alta discovery on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The main objectives of the well were to prove oil in Triassic sandstone and Permian carbonate reservoirs. The well encountered a gross 31 metres hydrocarbon column, with 21 metres of oil and 10 metres gas in the Permian target. The total gross resource estimate for the Neiden discovery is between 25 and 60 million barrels of oil equivalents (MMboe). Extensive data acquisition and sampling was carried out including coring, logging and light oil and gas sampled from the wireline tools. The well demonstrates high quality karstified carbonate reservoir which reduces the risk of the Børselv prospect, located 15 km north and up dip from the Neiden discovery in PL609. The Børselv prospect is a candidate for drilling in 2017. The semisubmersible drilling rig Leiv Eiriksson will now move to the Filicudi prospect in PL533 to the northwest of the Alta discovery and south of the Statoil operated Johan Castberg discovery. The Filicudi prospect is expected to contain Jurassic sandstone reservoir analogous to the Johan Castberg discovery. The Filicudi prospect is estimated to contain gross unrisked prospective resources of 258 MMboe. Lundin Norway is the operator of both PL609 and PL533 and holds a 40 percent and 35 percent working interest in these respective licences.
Lundin Petroleum is a Swedish independent oil and gas exploration and production company with a well balanced portfolio of worldclass assets primarily located in Europe and South East Asia. The Company is listed on NASDAQ Stockholm (ticker "LUPE"). Lundin Petroleum has proven and probable reserves of 716.2 million barrels of oil equivalents (MMboe) as at 1 January 2016.
For further information, please contact:
| Maria Hamilton Head of Corporate Communications E-mail: maria.hamilton@lundin.ch Tel: +41 22 595 10 00 Tel: +46 8 440 54 50 | Teitur Poulsen VP Corporate Planning & Investor Relations Tel: + 41 22 595 10 00 |
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