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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.
    35/12-2
    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.
    35/12-2
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    SG9603MN9201REV06 IL 3504 XL 2089
    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.
    Wintershall Norge ASA
    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.
    1241-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.
    47
    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,
    30.05.2009
    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.
    15.07.2009
    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.
    15.07.2011
    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.
    15.07.2011
    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.
    OIL/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.
    LATE JURASSIC
    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.
    SOGNEFJORD FM
    2nd level with HC, age
    Age of lithostratigraphic unit, 2nd level, where hydrocarbons were encountered. Examples of legal values: CRETACEOUS, EARLY CRETACEOUS, LATE JURASSIC, EOCENE.
    MIDDLE JURASSIC
    2nd level with HC, formation
    Name of lithostartigraphic unit, 2nd 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.
    NESS FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    29.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    359.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2541.0
    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).
    2541.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    1.6
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    91
    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.
    ETIVE FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    61° 9' 59.72'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    3° 40' 13.35'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6781688.99
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    536069.13
    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.
    6095

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 35/12-2 is an exploration well on the Grosbeak prospect. The Grosbeak prospect is located on the Ryggsteinen Ridge on the East flank of the Sogn Graben, with a number of fields and discoveries in the neighbouring blocks (Fram East, Fram West, Gjøa, Troll). The objective was to explore the hydrocarbon potential in sandstones of the Late Jurassic Sognefjord and Fensfjord formations and in the Middle Jurassic Brent Group.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 35/12-2 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Songa Delta on 30 May 2009 and drilled to TD at 2541 m in the Middle Jurassic Brent Group. The well was drilled without significant operational problems and within pre-drill time schedule. The well was drilled with bentonite mud down to 517 m and with AQUACOL KCl/polymer mud from 517 m to TD.
    The Late Jurassic Sognefjord Formation sandstones came in at 1968 m. Clear hydrocarbon shows and increased gas values were seen on penetrating this formation. The sandstones had an average porosity of 11.7 % when using a 10 % cut-off and contained gas to their base. The Heather Formation came in at 2030 m and consisted of very fine sandstones and siltstones with hydrocarbon shows throughout. Approximately 6 m of logs are missing in the top section of the Heather Formation. The Fensfjord Formation came in at 2100 m with oil encountered in a two-metre sandstone at the top of the formation. The Fensfjord Formation then passed into 13 m of shale, then into water-bearing sandstones. The sandstones had an average porosity of 19.4 % when using a 12.5 % cut off. Below the Fensfjord Formation was 291 m of non-hydrocarbon-bearing Heather Formation including 5 m of water-bearing Krossfjord Formation sandstone.
    The Middle Jurassic Brent Group, Ness Formation was penetrated at 2450 m. A 35 m gross oil column was encountered in the Ness Formation. Based on pressure measurements and fluid densities two different pressure regimes with two hydrocarbon contacts were identified. The upper contact was placed at 2476.5 m, but it is not known what kind of fluid contact it is. The lower was recognised as an OWC at 2485 m. The reservoir properties in both zones are good. Also the underlying water bearing Etive Formation sands (2509.6 to 2529.1 m) have good reservoir properties.
    Three successive cores were cut in the interval 1974.0 to 2106.0 m. Four (4) wire line runs comprised SBT, VSP and two RCI runs. A successful RCI gas sample using straddle packer was collected at 2027 m in the Sognefjord Formation. Further RCI single probe samples were collected in the Fensfjord Formation at 2101.5 m in (oil, gas, water, mud) and 2119 m (water); in the Ness Formation at 2454.4 m, 2459 m, 2459.5 m, 2460 m, 2477 m, 2481 m (all oil, gas, water, and mud) and at 2489 m (water and mud); and in the Etive Formation at 2524 m (water and mud). Low permeabilities in the Sognefjord Formation made the acquisition of accurate formation pressures (RCI) and fluid samples problematic, but otherwise the data collection was without incidents. Pressure measurements were also obtained in the Lista water bearing sands in the 12-1/4" hole section using a LWD formation pressure tool (TesTrak).
    The well was permanently abandoned on 15 July 2009 as an oil and 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]
    1320.00
    2541.00

  • 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
    1974.0
    2025.7
    [m ]
    2
    2028.0
    2055.0
    [m ]
    3
    2055.0
    2101.0
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    124.7
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    LWD - DIR GR RES DEN NUT SON PWD
    1310
    1975
    LWD - DIR GR RES DEN NUT SON PWD
    1975
    2541
    LWD - DIR GR RES PWD
    388
    517
    LWD - DIR GR RES PWD SON
    517
    1310
    RCI GR
    1971
    2531
    RCI GR
    1996
    2101
    SBT GR
    800
    1972
    VSP
    840
    2451

  • 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
    453.0
    36
    457.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    513.0
    26
    517.0
    0.00
    LOT
    PILOT HOLE
    517.0
    9 7/8
    517.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1304.0
    17 1/2
    1310.0
    1.39
    LOT
    LINER
    9 5/8
    1968.0
    12 1/4
    1975.0
    1.52
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2541.0
    8 1/2
    2541.0
    1.52
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    423
    1.05
    BENTONITE MUD
    430
    1.10
    7.0
    BENTONITE MUD
    453
    1.50
    20.0
    BENTONITE MUD
    517
    1.50
    BENTONITE MUD
    1137
    1.26
    16.0
    AQUACOL KCL/POLYMER/GLYCOL
    1310
    1.30
    21.0
    AQUACOL KCL/POLYMER/GLYCOL
    1975
    1.32
    21.0
    AQUACOL KCL/POLYMER/GLYCOL
    2105
    1.31
    18.0
    AQUACOL KCL/POLYMER/GLYCOL
    2386
    1.32
    24.0
    AQUACOL KCL/POLYMER/GLYCOL
    2541
    1.32
    18.0
    BENTONITE MUD