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35/3-7 S

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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.
    35/3-7 S
    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.
    P&A
    Press release
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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
    Discovery
    Name of the discovery the wellbore is related to.
    Well name
    Official name of the parent well for the wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    35/3-7
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    survey GP3DR07.inline 370 & crossline 1781
    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.
    VNG Norge (Operations) 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.
    1260-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.
    96
    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,
    28.06.2009
    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.
    01.10.2009
    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.
    01.10.2011
    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.
    01.10.2011
    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.
    GAS
    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.
    YES
    1st level with HC, age
    Age of lithostratigraphic unit, 1st level, where hydrocarbons were encountered. Examples of legal values: CRETACEOUS, EARLY CRETACEOUS, LATE JURASSIC, EOCENE. See also Norwegian Offshore Directorate bulletins.
    EARLY CRETACEOUS
    1st level with HC, formation
    Name of lithostartigraphic unit, 1st level, where hydrocarbons were encountered. Shown only for released wells. Examples of legal values: BASEMENT, COOK FM, EKOFISK FM, HEIMDAL FM, SANDNES FM, SOGNEFJORD FM, TARBERT FM, BRENT GP. See also Norwegian Offshore Directorate bulletins.
    AGAT FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    25.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    257.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    4051.0
    Final vertical depth (TVD) [m RKB]
    Vertical elevation from total depth to kelly bushing. Shown only for released wells. Referred to as true vertical depth (TVD).
    3971.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    25
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    124
    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.
    MIDDLE 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.
    61° 50' 7.24'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    3° 49' 31.83'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6856278.07
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    543472.41
    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.
    6154

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 35/3-7 S was drilled on the Cyclops prospect close to the Agat Discovery on the Måløy Slope in the Northern North Sea. The objective was to prove hydrocarbons in the Agat Formation (Agat 70 and Agat 80 sandstone units).
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 35/3-7 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Bredford Dolphin on 28 June 2009 and drilled to TD at 4051 m in the Late Jurassic Heather Formation. A 9 5/8" pilot hole was drilled from 550 m down to 836 m. A water flow incident happened at 745 m. This was expected from previous wells in the area and a Riserless Mud Recovery system (RMR) was utilized to use weighted mud from seabed. By this the water flow was taken care of in a controlled manner. When setting the 9 5/8" liner the liner was lost in the well, but it was finally cemented and successfully tested 2.0 sg EMW. Due to a stuck pipe incident on a wiper trip between wire line logging runs a technical sidetrack had to be drilled to fulfil the formation evaluation program. The sidetrack was kicked off at 3248 m, below the 9 5/8" casing shoe, and reached TD at 3777 m, ca 110 m south of the primary well bore. The well took 95.8 days vs. 61.2 days planned. The additional days were mainly caused by the lost 9 5/8" liner, the stuck pipe incident including sidetrack and 10.2 days waiting on weather before pulling anchors. The entire main well bore was drilled with KCl/GEM water based mud (WBM) and the sidetrack was drilled with Performadril WBM.
    The combined results of the main bore and the sidetrack was a gas discovery in the Agat formation in the Lower Cretaceous as proven by pressure data and gas samples. The pressure data combined define a GWC at 3652 m (3573 m TVD RKB, 3548 m TVD MSL) in main bore. The sidetrack hit the reservoir below the GWC. Moderate visible oil shows were primarily related to the core chips from the gas-bearing reservoir in the well 35/3-7 S. Weak oil shows on cuttings persisted below the GWC at 3652.8 m, throughout the Agat 70 Unit and down to top Agat 60 unit at 3738 m. Otherwise, weak oils shows were recorded above the reservoir in the Agat 110 unit at 3432 to 3443 m, and below the reservoir in the Agat 50 unit at 3790 to 3795 m and the Åsgard Formation at 3981 to 4003 m.
    In the well 35/3-7 S, two cores were drilled out within the members Agat 80 and top of Agat 70. No core was taken in the sidetrack. The MDT tool was run to take pressure and fluid samples. In the main well bore 14 stable pressure points over the Agat 70-780 unit and a water sample from 3713 m were obtained. In the sidetrack an MDT water and mud filtrate was recovered in a sample from 3662 m. After that a dual packer mini-DST was carried out and gas samples were taken from 3646.9 m, while samples from 3646.8 and 3675.3 m only retrieved mud filtrate.
    Preliminary estimates indicate that the size of the discovery in 35/3-7 S, together with previously proven gas discoveries in the licence (35/3-2 and 35/3-4, collectively called Agat, proven in 1980), is between three and eight billion standard cubic metres of recoverable gas.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 1 October 2009 as a gas discovery.
    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]
    560.00
    4051.70

  • Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Core sample number
    Core sample - top depth
    Core sample - bottom depth
    Core sample depth - uom
    1
    3620.0
    3643.0
    [m ]
    2
    3643.0
    3671.0
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    51.0
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    txt
    0.00
    txt
    0.00

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CMR HRLA PEX ECS
    3219
    4049
    FMI DSI HNGS
    3212
    4042
    MDT
    3614
    3904
    MDT CMR
    3596
    3747
    MDT SAMPLE
    3713
    3800
    MWD - DGR EWR
    277
    838
    MWD - DGR EWR QBAT
    792
    3224
    MWD - DGR EWR QBAT LAD CTN GEOTA
    3211
    4049

  • 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
    435.0
    36
    440.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    836.0
    24
    842.0
    1.47
    LOT
    PILOT HOLE
    842.0
    9 7/8
    842.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1520.0
    17 1/2
    1526.0
    1.76
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    3248.0
    12 1/4
    3250.0
    2.00
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    4051.0
    8 1/2
    4051.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    335
    1.03
    Bentonite Spud mud
    438
    1.27
    45.0
    KCl/GEM
    528
    1.03
    Bentonite Spud mud
    829
    1.24
    43.0
    KCl/GEM
    922
    1.22
    32.0
    KCl/GEM
    1250
    1.30
    43.0
    KCl/GEM
    1500
    1.35
    27.0
    KCl/GEM
    2011
    1.30
    46.0
    KCl/GEM
    2412
    1.35
    28.0
    KCl/GEM
    2732
    1.30
    37.0
    KCl/GEM
    3164
    1.37
    48.0
    KCl/GEM
    3246
    1.39
    53.0
    KCl/GEM
    3305
    1.30
    31.0
    Performadril
    3738
    1.39
    29.0
    KCl/GEM
    3769
    1.30
    37.0
    Performadril
    4051
    1.39
    43.0
    KCl/GEM