
âWeâre the first company to look at opportunities for commercial utilisation of shallow gas,â explains Finn LanggĂĽrd, project manager for Peon.
âIn connection with this discovery, weâre developing new technology which will allow us to utilise gas resources of this kind.
âWeâve taken an important step forward with the present well in qualifying the solutions which will make it possible to recover Peon gas.â
The well was drilled from the Transocean Winner semi-submersible rig to a vertical depth of 640 metres in 372 metres of water. It will now be plugged and abandoned.
The licensees in production licence 318 are StatoilHydro, the operator with 60%, Petoro with 20% and Idemitsu Petroleum Norge with 20%.