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16/3-8 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.
    16/3-8 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).
    APPRAISAL
    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
    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.
    16/3-8
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    LN0902 : inline 2361 & crossline 7384
    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.
    Lundin Norway 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.
    1492-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,
    01.01.2014
    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.
    16.03.2014
    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.
    16.03.2016
    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.
    12.04.2016
    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.
    APPRAISAL
    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.
    NO
    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.
    INTRA DRAUPNE FM SS
    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.
    PERMIAN
    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.
    ZECHSTEIN GP
    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.
    116.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2109.0
    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).
    2035.5
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    20.5
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    88
    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.
    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.
    58° 48' 23.35'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    2° 40' 27.66'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6518700.07
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    481184.90
    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.
    7302
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 16/3-8 S was drilled on the Avaldsnes High, in the Eastern part of the Johan Sverdrup Field in the North Sea. The well has a crestal position on this part of the Johan Sverdrup structure. The primary objective was to investigate the reservoir properties of the Zechstein Carbonates, including a designed DST for this purpose. A secondary objective was to determine the presence, thickness and quality of the Late Jurassic Intra Draupne Formation sandstones at this location.
    Operations and results
    Appraisal well 16/3-8 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Bredford Dolphin on 1 January 2014 and drilled to TD at 2109 m in the Permian Rotliegend Group. No significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 607 m and Aquadrill mud from 607 m to TD.
    A six-meter thick interval of tight Draupne shale was encountered before entering the Volgian Intra Draupne Formation sandstone reservoir at 1964 m (1897 m TVD). The reservoir section consists of 13 meters of Draupne sandstone with excellent reservoir quality and 66 meters of Zechstein carbonates with variable reservoir quality. The carbonate sequence consists of limestone with limited reservoir quality in the upper part and dolomites with moderate to good reservoir quality in the lower part. The reservoir contained a 53 m TVD oil column. The oil/water contact is interpreted at 2021 m (1950 m TVD) based on the interception of the water gradient and the oil gradient from pressure measurements. Oil shows are described throughout the oil-bearing reservoir and down to a depth of 2035.6 m in the dolomitic limestones.
    Four cores were cut in succession from 1965 m in the Draupne Formation, through the Intra Draupne Formation Sandstone and the Smith Bank Formation and down to 2035.6 m in the Zechstein Group carbonates. Recovery was good, between 97.2 and 100%.  RCX fluid samples were taken at 1965.6 m (oil), 1977.7 m (oil), 2019.5 m (water and oil), and 2037.8 m (water). Single stage separation to ambient conditions gave a GOR of ca 41 Sm3/Sm3 and an oil density of ca 0.894 g/cm3 for both of the two oil samples.
    The well was plugged back and prepared for sidetracking on 16 March 2014. It is classified as an oil appraisal well.
    Testing
    One production test was performed. The interval 1964.1 - 1979.2 m was perforated and tested. In the main flow, the test produced 803 Sm3 oil and 18900 Sm3 gas through a 52/64" choke. The GOR was 23.5 Sm3/Sm3, the oil gravity was 0.89 g/cm3, and the gas gravity was 0.79 (air = 1). The maximum DST temperature was 82.5 °C.
  • 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]
    600.00
    2109.00
  • 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
    1965.0
    1981.3
    [m ]
    2
    1981.5
    2008.3
    [m ]
    3
    2008.3
    2021.6
    [m ]
    4
    2022.0
    2035.6
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    69.9
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Drill stem tests (DST)

    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    From depth MD
    [m]
    To depth MD
    [m]
    Choke size
    [mm]
    1.0
    1964
    1979
    20.6
    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
    779
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    DSL ORIT STAR UXPL
    1913
    2103
    FLEX MREX
    1913
    2107
    GR CCL SBT VDL
    1799
    2009
    GR CN ZDL ORIT XMAC RTEX MLL
    1901
    2107
    GR GEW
    2027
    3031
    GR MAXCOR
    2027
    2056
    GR RCX SENTINEL
    1965
    2058
    GR RCX SP RSPS
    2019
    2035
    MWD LWD - ASS ZT OT2 CCN ST
    602
    1916
    MWD LWD - OT ST
    141
    607
    MWD LWD - ZTG OT
    1913
    1965
    ZTG OT ARD2.6 CCN ST
    1965
    2106
  • 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
    219.7
    36
    222.0
    0.00
    SURF.COND.
    20
    595.0
    26
    602.0
    1.75
    FIT
    PILOT HOLE
    610.0
    9 7/8
    610.0
    0.00
    PROD.
    9 5/8
    1912.6
    12 1/4
    1920.0
    1.79
    LOT
    LINER
    7
    2107.6
    8 1/2
    2109.0
    0.00
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    442
    1.40
    23.0
    Brine
    602
    1.35
    20.0
    Water Based
    1741
    1.16
    14.0
    Water Based
    1760
    1.15
    15.0
    Water Based
    1920
    1.40
    23.0
    Water Based
    1920
    1.41
    25.0
    Water Based
    1965
    1.15
    17.0
    Water Based
    2008
    1.17
    18.0
    Water Based
    2109
    1.15
    1.0
    Brine