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  • General information
    General information
    Attribute Value
    Wellbore name
    Official name of wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    30/7-6
    Type
    Wellbore type. Legal values: EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, OTHER (see 'Purpose' for more information)
    EXPLORATION
    Purpose
    Final classification of the wellbore.

    Legal values for exploration wellbores:
    WILDCAT, APPRAISAL, WILDCAT-CCS, APPRAISAL-CCS.

    Legal values for development wellbores:
    OBSERVATION, PRODUCTION, INJECTION, INJECTION-CCS, OBSERVATION-CCS.

    Legal values for other wellbores:
    SOIL DRILLING (drilling in connection with track surveys and other subsurface surveys to investigate the soil conditions prior to placement of facilities),
    SHALLOW GAS (drilling to investigate shallow gas before the first 'real' drilling on the location),
    PILOT (drilling to investigate the geology and fluid connectors for location of the main wellbore),
    SCIENTIFIC (drilling according to Law of Scientific research and exploration),
    STRATIGRAPHIC (driling according to Law of Petroleum activities §2-1).
    WILDCAT
    Status
    Status for the wellbore. Legal values are:

    BLOWOUT: A blowout has occurred in the well.
    CLOSED: A development wellbore that has been closed in a shorter or longer periode. Also applies to development wellbores where drilling is completed, but production/injection has not yet been reported.
    DRILLING: The well is in the drilling phase - can be active drilling, logging, testing or plugging,
    JUNKED: The drilling operation has been terminated due to technical problems.
    P&A: Exploration: The well is plugged and abandoned, and can not be reentered for further use. Development wells: The production/injection from/to the well is stopped and the well is plugged. The wellhead is removed or else made unavailable for further well operations.
    PLUGGED: The wellbore has been plugged, but the upper parts of the wellbore can be re-used. A sidetrack might be drilled at a later stage.
    PRODUCING: It was produced from the wellbore at the time of the operators last monthly report to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.
    INJECTING: It was injected to the wellbore at the time of the operators last monthly report to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.
    PREDRILLED: The upper part of the well has been drilled, usually as part of a batch-drilling campaign covering several wellbores.
    RE-CLASS TO DEV: Exploration wellbore that is reclassified to a development wellbore.
    RE-CLASS TO TEST: Exploration wellbore that is reclassified to test production.
    SUSPENDED: The drilling operation in the wellbore has been temporarily stopped. The current plan is to continue drilling later on.
    SUSPENDED
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    Main area
    Name of the area on the Norwegian Continental Shelf where the wellbore is located. Legal values: BARENTS SEA, NORWEGIAN SEA, NORTH SEA.
    NORTH SEA
    Well name
    Official name of the parent well for the wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    30/7-6
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    Production licence
    Official designation of the production licence the wellbore was drilled or planned to be drilled from ( well head posistion).
    Drilling operator
    Name of the licensee starting the drilling operation on behalf of the active production license (well head position). This will usually equal the operator of the production license.
    Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS
    Drill permit
    The drilling permit number together with the version of the drilling permit as stated in the drilling permit granted by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.
    173-L
    Drilling facility
    Norwegian Offshore Directorate's name of the facility which the wellbore was drilled from.
    Drilling days
    Number of days from wellbore entry to wellbore completion.
    166
    Entered date
    The date when he wellbore was spudded. For sidetracks: The date when new formation was drilled by kicking off from the mother-wellbore,
    15.02.1977
    Completed date
    Exploration wellbores from moveable facilities:
    For floating facilities - date when anchor handling is started. For jackups - date the jacking-down started. Exploration wellbores from fixed facilities and all development wellbores:
    Date when the wellbore is at total depth, and last casing, liner or screen is set. In case of immediate plugging of the wellbore, completed date equals the date the last plug i set in the wellbore.
    Date when the wellbore is at total depth, and last casing, liner or screen is set. In case of immediate plugging of the wellbore, completed date equals the date the last plug i set in the wellbore.
    31.07.1977
    Release date
    Date when raw data which has been reported to the authorities from the wellbore is not confidential any longer. Normally 2 years after finishing the drilling. May be earlier if the area of the production license is relinquished.
    31.07.1979
    Publication date
    Date quality control of the wellbore information was completed, so it can be published on the internet as a 'Well Data Summary Sheet' wellbore with more information available than other wellbores.
    21.05.2015
    Purpose - planned
    Pre-drill purpose of the wellbore. Legal values for exploration wellbores: WILDCAT, APPRAISAL, WILDCAT-CCS, APPRAISAL-CCS. Example of legal values for development wellbores: OBSERVATION, PRODUCTION, INJECTION.
    WILDCAT
    Reentry
    Status whether the wellbore has been re-entered (YES) or not (NO). Re-entered wellbores are not included in the count when wellbores are presented in statistical overviews.
    NO
    Content
    For exploration wellbores, status of discovery.

    Legal values:
    DRY, SHOWS (trace amounts of hydrocarbons), GAS, GAS/CONDENSATE, OIL or OIL/GAS.
    SHOWS (GAS SHOWS, OIL SHOWS or OIL/GAS SHOWS) are detected as fluorescent cut (organic extract), petroleum odour, or visual stain on cuttings or cores, or as increased gas reading on the mud-loggers gas detection equipment.
    Legal values for WILDCAT-CCS and APPRAISAL-CCS: WATER

    For development wellbores, type of produced/injected fluid.
    Legal values:
    WATER, CUTTINGS, NOT AVAILABLE, OIL, GAS/CONDENSATE, OIL/GAS, CO2, GAS, WATER/GAS, NOT APPLICABLE.
    SHOWS
    Discovery wellbore
    Indicator which tells if the wellbore made a new discovery. Legal values: YES, NO. Prior to press-release or other information regarding drilling results, the indicator will be “NO” as a default.
    NO
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    24.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    116.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3784.0
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    127
    Oldest penetrated age
    Age (according to Geologic Time Scale 2004 by F. M. Gradstein, et al. (2004)) of the oldest penetrated formation. May differ from age at TD for example in deviated wellbores. Examples of legal values: CRETACEOUS, EARLY CRETACEOUS, LATE JURASSIC, EARLY PERMIAN, EARLY TRIASSIC, EOCENE.
    LATE JURASSIC
    Oldest penetrated formation
    Name of the oldest lithostratigraphic unit penetrated by the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. In most wellbores this is formation or group at total depth. May differ from formation or group at TD for example in wellbores drilled with high deviation or through faults. Examples of legal values: AMUNDSEN FM, BALDER FM, BASEMENT, BLODØKS FM, BRYNE FM, BURTON FM, COOK FM, DRAKE FM, DRAUPNE FM, EKOFISK FM, DUNLIN GP.
    HEATHER FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    60° 29' 29.82'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    2° 3' 26.14'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6706692.25
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    448196.93
    UTM zone
    Universal Transverse Mercator zone. Examples of legal values: 31, 32, 33, 34.
    31
    NPDID wellbore
    Norwegian Offshore Directorate's unique id for the wellbore.
    389

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 30/7-6 was drilled on the East Shetland Basin in the North Sea close to the UK border. It was drilled as replacement well for wells 30/7-4 and 30/7-5, which were both junked for technical reasons. Well 30/7-6 (Phase I) was planned to be suspended after setting the 9-5/8" casing at ca 3800 m. The well would then be re-entered as 30/7-6 R (Phase II) and drilled to a TD of ca. 5000 meters employing the 11" 1000 bar BOP system. The main objective was Middle Jurassic sandstones, and this was planned to be penetrated in the re-entry. The exploration targets in the 30/7-6 well were the secondary ones: possible lower Cretaceous carbonate development, and possible Late Jurassic sandstones. The hydrocarbon-bearing Eocene sands (Frigg Formation) tested by the 30/7-2 well were also expected to be encountered within the same structural closure by this well.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 30/7-6 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Polyglomar Driller on 15 February 1977. At 3784 m, on April 14, a massive gas kick occurred and circulation was lost. The well was killed and plugged back into the 13 3/8" casing. A sidetrack was kicked off from 2619 m. The sidetrack proceeded with the 12 1/4" hole to 3252 m and the 8 3/8" hole to 3711 m. A 7" liner was set down to 3707. The cement flash set around the running string for the liner and 18 days were spent cleaning out the hole. At this point, the well was plugged back and suspended. The well was drilled with a gel/lignosulphonate mud system.
    The top of the Eocene sands were penetrated at 1783.5 m and were found to be water wet. This agrees with the observation made in 30/7-2, in which the oil water contact was defined at 1783 m. No reservoir development was encountered in the Cretaceous limestone or in the Late Jurassic; only traces of sandstone was seen towards the base of the Heather Formation where the gas kick occurred.
    Occasional oil stains on sandstone, limestone and siltstone were described between 1975 m and 2282 m in the Rogaland Group. Frequent shows on limestone stringers were described from 2343 to 3034 m in the Shetland Group. A geochemical extract at 2675 proved mature and migrated oil.
    No cores were cut in the well. No fluid samples were taken
    The well was suspended on 31 July as a dry well with shows.
    Testing
    No drill stem test was performed.

  • Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cuttings available for sampling?
    YES
    Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cutting sample, top depth [m]
    Cutting samples, bottom depth [m]
    195.00
    4114.00

  • Lithostratigraphy
    Lithostratigraphy
    Top depth [mMD RKB]
    Lithostrat. unit
    140
    455
    870
    1783
    1965
    1965
    2000
    2044
    2084
    2377

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.13
    pdf
    1.13
    pdf
    0.10

  • Documents – reported by the production licence (period for duty of secrecy expired)
    Documents – reported by the production licence (period for duty of secrecy expired)
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    1.90
    pdf
    12.27

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CBL
    1000
    3215
    CNL GR
    3250
    3666
    CST
    1773
    2418
    CST
    3262
    3707
    CST
    3630
    3704
    CST
    3705
    3682
    DLL MSFL GR
    3252
    3707
    FDC CNL GR
    1700
    3707
    GR
    3670
    3711
    HDT
    2544
    3707
    HRT
    2000
    3775
    ISF SON GR
    765
    3705
    NEU
    2550
    3770
    RFT
    3262
    3500
    RFT
    3262
    3707
    VELOCITY
    600
    3707

  • Casing and leak–off tests
    Casing and leak–off tests
    Casing type
    Casing diam.
    [inch]
    Casing depth
    [m]
    Hole diam.
    [inch]
    Hole depth
    [m]
    LOT/FIT mud eqv.
    [g/cm3]
    Formation test type
    CONDUCTOR
    30
    186.0
    36
    188.0
    0.00
    SURF.COND.
    20
    765.0
    26
    770.0
    0.00
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    2541.0
    17 1/2
    2550.0
    0.00
    OPEN HOLE
    3784.0
    12 1/4
    3784.0
    0.00

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    188
    1.09
    waterbased
    1297
    1.07
    39.0
    waterbased
    1988
    1.10
    48.0
    waterbased
    2262
    1.12
    44.0
    waterbased
    2550
    1.20
    73.0
    waterbased
    3020
    1.71
    55.0
    waterbased
    3158
    1.76
    83.0
    waterbased
    3613
    1.71
    50.0
    waterbased

  • Pressure plots
    Pressure plots
    The pore pressure data is sourced from well logs if no other source is specified. In some wells where pore pressure logs do not exist, information from Drill stem tests and kicks have been used. The data has been reported to the NPD, and further processed and quality controlled by IHS Markit.
    Pressure plots
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.18