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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.
    25/8-1
    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
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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
    Field
    Name of the field the wellbore is related to.
    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.
    25/8-1
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    LINE CS 40.sp 5650
    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.
    Esso Exploration and Production Norway A/S
    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.
    36-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.
    68
    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,
    28.04.1970
    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.
    04.07.1970
    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.
    04.07.1972
    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.
    01.08.2010
    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.
    OIL
    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.
    PALEOCENE
    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.
    HERMOD FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    9.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    129.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2606.0
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    71
    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.
    EARLY PERMIAN
    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.
    ROTLIEGEND GP
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    59° 15' 2'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    2° 29' 35.41'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6568213.91
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    471091.98
    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.
    173

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 25/8-1 was drilled on the Utsira High in the North Sea. The main purpose was to test an Eocene structural closure, up dip from oil-bearing Eocene sands in Well 25/11-1.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 25/8-1 was spudded with the vessel Glomar Grand Isle on 28 April 1970. Drilling operations were normal down to 2606 m, which became TD in the well, 289 m into the Early Permian Undefined Group. While drilling at this depth the drilling pipe parted. After recovering the upper portion of the drill pipe the top of the portion left in the hole was found to be at 2559. Attempts to recover the fish failed and after logging and taking sidewall cores in the uncased hole the well was prepared for testing. Initial drilling from the sea floor to 378 m was with sea water and gell. Below 378 m to 1311 m, the mud system consisted of sea water, spersene XP-20 salinex. From 1311 m to TD fresh water, spersene XP-20 mud was used.
    The well penetrated several Tertiary sands above the Paleocene (Utsira and Skade Formations). These sands were water wet, but some methane was recorded in the upper part of the Utsira Formation. Two Paleoocene sands (Hermod Formation at 1754.4 - 1758.1 m and 1759.0 - 1763.0 m) were found. The sands were separated by a thin 1 m shale section. Upon testing, the sands were found to be capable of producing approximately 429 Sm3 of 21.7 deg API gravity, low sulphur (0.77 to 0.80%) oil per day. All other sands or reservoirs penetrated by the well, including the Heimdal Formation at 1777 to 1812 m, were water wet without shows.
    Seven cores were cut in the well. Core no 1 was cut from 1676.4 to 1684.9 m in the Balder Formation, cores no 2 to 5 were cut in the interval 1724.3 to 1790.7 m in the Balder/Sele/Hermod/Sele/Lista/Heimdal Formations, core no 6 was cut at 1828.8 to 1847.1 m in the Lista/Våle Formations, and core no 7 was cut at 2359.2 to 2377.4 m in the Undefined Group. FIT wire line fluid samples were taken at 1756.6 m (5.5 gallons oil), 1760.5 m (5 gallons oil), and at 1783.1 m (5 gallons water). The oil gravity was 21.7 and 21.8 deg API with 0.77% and 0.80%, respectively.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 4 July 1970 as an oil discovery.
    Testing
    A production test performed in the interval 1755.0 to 1762.4 m in the Hermod Formation sand. The well was tested in four successive flow periods of increasing drawdown pressures. The final flow period lasted about 19 hours; during this period the average rate was about 429 Sm3/day through a 64/64" choke. The GOR was 23.2 Sm3/Sm3 (130 ft3/barrel), oil gravity was 21 deg API. Only trace quantities of basal sediments and water were produced during the test. No sand was detected in the produced fluid sampled at the surface; however, a small quantity of fine-grain sand was removed from the bottom-hole fluid samplers.

  • 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]
    2407.92
    2603.00

  • 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
    5500.0
    5528.0
    [ft ]
    2
    5657.0
    5715.0
    [ft ]
    3
    5713.0
    5770.0
    [ft ]
    4
    5770.0
    5815.0
    [ft ]
    5
    5815.0
    5875.0
    [ft ]
    6
    6000.0
    6060.0
    [ft ]
    7
    7740.0
    7794.0
    [ft ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    110.3
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    6360.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6400.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6440.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6480.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6500.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6510.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6520.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6530.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6540.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6550.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6560.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6570.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6600.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6610.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6640.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6650.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6680.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6700.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6720.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6760.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6760.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6800.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6800.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6840.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6880.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6920.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    6960.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    7000.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    7040.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    7080.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    7120.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    7160.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI
    7200.0
    [ft]
    DC
    RRI

  • Oil samples at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Oil samples at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Test type
    Bottle number
    Top depth
    MD [m]
    Bottom depth
    MD [m]
    Fluid type
    Test time
    Samples available
    DST
    TEST1
    1762.00
    1755.00
    30.06.1970 - 00:00
    YES

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    4.96
    pdf
    1.40
    pdf
    0.64
    pdf
    2.44

  • 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
    1.55
    pdf
    38.47

  • Documents – Norwegian Offshore Directorate papers

  • Drill stem tests (DST)
    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    From depth MD
    [m]
    To depth MD
    [m]
    Choke size
    [mm]
    1.0
    1755
    1762
    25.4
    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    Final shut-in pressure
    [MPa]
    Final flow pressure
    [MPa]
    Bottom hole pressure
    [MPa]
    Downhole temperature
    [°C]
    1.0
    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    Oil
    [Sm3/day]
    Gas
    [Sm3/day]
    Oil density
    [g/cm3]
    Gas grav. rel.air
    GOR
    [m3/m3]
    1.0
    429
    9965
    0.930
    23

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    BHC SON GR CAL
    389
    2540
    DIP
    389
    2083
    FDC
    1328
    2540
    GR
    134
    389
    IES
    389
    2548
    MLL CAL
    389
    1915
    VELOCITY
    135
    2600

  • 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
    163.0
    36
    165.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    390.0
    26
    405.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1330.0
    18
    1346.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    1881.0
    12 1/4
    1903.0
    0.00
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2606.0
    8 1/2
    2606.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    378
    1.05
    seawater
    1310
    1.07
    sw/sper
    2619
    1.04
    fw/sper

  • Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Depth
    Unit
    1754.00
    [m ]
    1754.00
    [m ]
    1755.00
    [m ]
    1756.00
    [m ]
    1754.00
    [m ]
    5866.00
    [ft ]
    5845.00
    [ft ]
    5862.00
    [ft ]
    5875.00
    [ft ]
    6042.50
    [ft ]
    5776.50
    [ft ]
    5869.00
    [ft ]
    5836.00
    [ft ]
    5773.00
    [ft ]
    5825.50
    [ft ]
    7767.00
    [m ]
    7740.00
    [ft ]

  • 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
    0.21