Well 12/17b-1 is targeting Jurassic sandstones. The Ridgewood prospect is a four-way dip closure. The unrisked gross potential resource is 41 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe).
Lundin Petroleum has contracted the Global Santa Fe Galaxy II jack-up rig to drill this prospect. Drilling is expected to take 28 days. Well 12/17b-1 is the third well of a three well back-to-back exploration drilling programme on the UKCS using the same rig.
Lundin Petroleum is the operator with 30 percent interest. Partners are Palace Exploration Company (E&P) Limited (25%), Britcana Energy Ltd. (25%) (a subsidiary of International Frontier Resources Corp.), Gulf Shores UK Resources Ltd. (10%) and Monoil UK Limited (10%).
Lundin Petroleum is a Swedish independent oil and gas exploration and production company with a well balanced portfolio of world-class assets in Europe, Africa, Russia and the Far East. The Company is listed at the Nordic Exchange, Sweden (ticker "LUPE"). Lundin Petroleum has existing proven and probable reserves of 176.4 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) as at 1 January 2007.
For further information, please contact:
C. Ashley Heppenstall,
President and CEO
Tel: 08-440 54 50
or
Maria Hamilton
Head of Corporate Communications
Tel: 08-440 54 50