Vår Energi ASA confirmed drilling operations on the exploration wells targeting the Hubert and Magellan prospects in PL 917 have been concluded. The objective of the wells was to prove petroleum in the Hubert prospect in the Paleocene Hermod Formation and in the Magellan Prospect in Eocene Injectites in the Balder Formation. No producible reservoir was observed, and the wells are classified as dry.

The wells will be permanently plugged and abandoned.