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15/9-19 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.
    15/9-19 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.
    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
    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.
    15/9-19
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    ST 8215 R - 571 CROSSLINE 491
    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.
    Den norske stats oljeselskap 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.
    749-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.
    75
    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,
    18.11.1992
    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.
    31.01.1993
    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.
    31.01.1995
    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.
    15.12.2006
    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.
    DRY
    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.
    22.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    84.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3580.0
    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).
    2405.8
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    60.9
    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.
    PALEOCENE
    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.
    LISTA FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    58° 26' 9.25'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 55' 47.05'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6477887.72
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    437506.71
    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.
    2043
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Wildcat well 15/9-19 S was the first well to be drilled into the Theta Vest Structure north of the Sleipner East Field. It was designed to test gas from the Heimdal reservoir, and to provide geological and reservoir data enabling optimal reservoir management. The secondary target was the Hugin/Skagerrak Sands, which were to be fully evaluated if hydrocarbon bearing.
    Operations and results
    Well 15/9- 19 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Treasure Prospect on 18 November 1992, from Slot 3 of the Loke Discovery template. The well was deviated, penetrating the top of the Theta Vest structure approximately 2290 m west northwest of the Loke Template, and reached the target Top Heimdal Formation at 3622.5 m (2427.0 m TVD RKB). The 12 1/4" section from 1482 m to 3580 m was drilled with significant problems. Trips out of the hole at 2018 m, 3016 m and 3353 m were performed to change the bits, due to low penetration rate. The hole packed of several times when tripping out. Problems with lost returns and stuck BHA finally led to plugging back and sidetracking from 1493 m. Attempts to orientate the well became progressively more difficult, especially after penetrating 3308.5 m in the Balder Formation. The Lista Formation was encountered at 3483 m, and final TD was set at 3580 m, at the edge of the Heimdal Formation target. The well was drilled with bentonite mud down to 531 m, and with KCL/POLYMER (Phpa/pac) mud from 531 m to TD in the first hole. After sidetracking oil based mud (Petrofree) was used.
    The well penetrated 150 m TVD of Tertiary sands between 1313 m and top Balder Formation at 3302 m.
    It was temporarily suspended on 31 January 1993 after setting 9 5/8" casing at 3569.0 m (2394.0 m TVD RKB), immediately above the Heimdal sands. No cores were cut and no fluid samples taken in this well bore. It is classified as a dry well.
    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]
    3452.00
    4640.00
  • Core photos

    Core photos
    Core photo at depth: 3643-3647m
    Core photo at depth: 4328-4333m
    Core photo at depth: 4338-4343m
    Core photo at depth: 4343-4348m
    Core photo at depth: 4348-4353m
    3643-3647m
    4328-4333m
    4338-4343m
    4343-4348m
    4348-4353m
    Core photo at depth: 4353-4354m
    Core photo at depth: 4355-4360m
    Core photo at depth: 4360-4365m
    Core photo at depth: 4365-4370m
    Core photo at depth: 4370-4375m
    4353-4354m
    4355-4360m
    4360-4365m
    4365-4370m
    4370-4375m
    Core photo at depth: 4375-4380m
    Core photo at depth: 4380-4383m
    Core photo at depth:  
    Core photo at depth:  
    Core photo at depth:  
    4375-4380m
    4380-4383m
  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate

    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    3584.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3593.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3602.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3608.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3614.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3620.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3626.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3635.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3656.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3665.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3668.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3674.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3680.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3695.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3704.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3710.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3728.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3743.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3746.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3749.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3755.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3764.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3779.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3794.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3806.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3809.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3827.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    3830.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
  • Lithostratigraphy

    Lithostratigraphy
    Top depth [mMD RKB]
    Lithostrat. unit
    106
    847
    1108
    1313
    1451
    3008
    3240
    3302
    3302
    3403
    3483
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    DIFL AC GR
    3567
    4602
    MWD - DPR GR
    3569
    4638
    MWD - MNP MDL GR
    3589
    4638
    ZDL CN GR
    3587
    4602
  • 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
    166.0
    36
    166.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    531.0
    26
    531.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1482.0
    17 1/2
    1484.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    3569.0
    12 1/4
    3572.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    215
    1.37
    8.0
    SEAWATER/BENT.
    402
    1.37
    8.0
    SEAWATER/BENT.
    2178
    1.50
    51.0
    ULTIDRILL
    2213
    1.50
    49.0
    ULTIDRILL