Give whole or part of name of wellbore, licence, field, company, discovery etc. E.g. Aker, Statfjord, 24/12, ABP21014. The main content is not searched.
Official name of wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
6407/1-9
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.
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.
Equinor Energy 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.
1862-L
Drilling facility
Norwegian Offshore Directorate's name of the facility which the wellbore was drilled from.
Number of days from wellbore entry to wellbore completion.
35
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,
24.09.2021
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.
28.10.2021
Plugged date
Date when plugging operations was finished, as reported by the operator to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate through DDRS (Daily Drilling Reporting System).
28.10.2021
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.
01.03.2023
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.
01.03.2023
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.
LATE 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.
LANGE FM
Kelly bushing elevation [m]
Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
31.0
Water depth [m]
Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
301.0
Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
3914.0
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).
3914.0
Maximum inclination [°]
Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
1.3
Bottom hole temperature [°C]
Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells.
See discription.
136
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 CRETACEOUS
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.
LANGE FM
Geodetic datum
Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
ED50
NS degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
64° 58' 45.35'' N
EW degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
7° 2' 54.31'' E
NS UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
7207745.18
EW UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
Well 6407/1-9 was drilled to test the Egyptian Vulture prospect in the Grinda Graben in the Norwegian Sea. The primary objective was to confirm hydrocarbons in the Early Turonian Intra Lange Formation sandstones.
Operations and results
An 8 1/2 pilot hole NO 6407/1-U-1 was drilled off location to check for shallow gas down to section depth for 26 section. The well was drilled down to 912 m where a flow check confirmed gas bobbles with ROV. The U-1 pilot hole was cemented back, and it was decided to drill another pilot hole.
The second pilot hole, NO 6407/1-U-2, was drilled to 1445 m, flow checked several intervals and only minor gas bubbles was observed at seabed with ROV. The pilot hole was cemented back, and the planned main well location was moved to second pilot hole location.
Wildcat well 6407/1-9 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation West Hercules on 24 September 2021 and drilled to TD at 3914 m in the Early Cretaceous Lange Formation. Drilling to TD proceeded without significant problems, but hole stability issues created problems during logging. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 1445 m, with Versatec oil-based mud from 1445 m to 3095 m, and with Exploradril oil-based mud from 3095 m to TD.
Numerous Intra-Lange Formation sandstones were penetrated in the interval 3618 m to 3651 m. Light oil was proven in sands in the interval 3715 to 3740 m. Pore pressures between 549 to 549.5 bar was recorded in the upper part of the oil-bearing sands. The only oil shows reported from the well were in these sands.
One core was cut from 3727 m to 3795 m in the Lange Formation with 94.4% recovery. MDT oil samples were taken at 3718.3 m in the Intra-Lange Formation sandstones. Due to problems with hole stability during wireline logging this was the only sampling station, hence, information about fluid and pressure properties were limited to the uppermost sand unit.
The well was permanently abandoned on 28 October 2021 as an oil discovery.
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