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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.
    16/1-23 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.
    16/1-23
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    LN12M02. inline 2474. crossline 6454
    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.
    1536-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.
    63
    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,
    24.06.2015
    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.
    25.08.2015
    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.
    25.08.2017
    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.
    25.08.2017
    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.
    TRIASSIC
    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.
    SKAGERRAK FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    52.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    108.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2130.0
    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).
    2095.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    24
    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.
    BASEMENT
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    58° 49' 47.06'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    2° 16' 55.78'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6521465.73
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    458553.52
    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.
    7532
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 16/1-23 S was drilled appraise the Edvard Grieg Field on the Utsira High in the North Sea. The primary objective was to investigate the hydrocarbon potential in the South Eastern part of the Field. It was also designed to allow installation of a CaTS pressure gauge for long term monitoring of reservoir pressure.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 16/1-23 S was spudded with the jack-up installation Rowan Viking on 24 June 2015 and drilled to TD at 2130 m in basement rock. The well was drilled S-shaped with up to 24 ° deviation in the interval from 630 m to 1480 m. This was to avoid a fault at the reservoir level. Target location was approximately 43 m west of the spud location. No significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 315 m, with KCl/polymer mud from 634 m to 1888 m, and with Aquadril mud from 188 m to TD.
    Well 16/1-23 S proved a 66 metres gross oil column in conglomerates and sandstones with medium to good reservoir quality. The top of the reservoir, from 1953 to 1953.5 m, is a marine sandstone unit with a basal conglomeratic transgression lag belonging to the Åsgard Formation, the remaining reservoir is conglomerates and thin sandstone units belonging to the Triassic Skagerrak Formation. A Free Water Level was established from pressure gradients at ca 2020.4 m (1985.5 m TVD). The pressure points further proved an oil gradient with the same density as in the rest of the Edvard Grieg field. Fair to poor oil shows were recorded on cores below the FWL down to 2054 m.
    Eight cores were cut. Core 1 was cut from 1681 to 1690 m in Hordaland Group claystone for hole instability studies. Core recovery was 104.1%. Cores 2 to 8 were cut from 1945.5 m in the Åsgard Formation to 2064.4 m in the Skagerrak Formation. Recovery varied from 92.5 to 100%.  MDT fluid samples were taken at 1958.2 m (oil), 1990.0 m (oil), 1990.6 m (oil), 2015.21 m (oil), 2024.7 m (water), 2061.4 m (water), 2061.72 m (water), and 2030.85 m (water). Single stage separation of the oil samples gave oil densities in the range 0.857 to 0.886 g/cm3 and GORs in the range 149 to 111 Sm3/Sm3.
    The CaTS reservoir pressure monitoring system was installed before the well was permanently abandoned on 25 August 2015 as an oil appraisal 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]
    320.00
    2129.00
  • 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
    1681.0
    1690.4
    [m ]
    2
    1945.5
    1954.8
    [m ]
    3
    1955.5
    1974.2
    [m ]
    4
    1975.5
    1979.4
    [m ]
    5
    1979.5
    1992.2
    [m ]
    6
    1993.0
    2021.5
    [m ]
    7
    2012.9
    2040.0
    [m ]
    8
    2040.0
    2064.5
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    134.0
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    DSL CN ZDL XMAC RTEX MLL
    200
    2129
    DSL FLEX MREX
    1850
    2128
    DSL SBT
    1500
    1992
    DSL STAR HD UXPL
    1880
    2122
    DSL SWC
    1894
    2103
    DSL SWC
    2065
    2080
    DSL VSP
    200
    2128
    FST GR
    1891
    2018
    FTWT GR
    1955
    2067
    GR MDT STURN
    1957
    2061
    MWD - ECD DIR
    315
    633
    MWD - ECD GR DIR
    160
    303
    MWD - GR ECD RES DIR
    1882
    1944
    MWD - GR ECD RES DIR AC
    315
    634
    MWD - GR ECD RES DIR DEN CAL NEU
    1882
    2129
    MWD - GR RES ECD DIR CAL NEU NEU
    633
    1888
  • 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
    308.1
    36
    315.0
    0.00
    SURF.COND.
    20
    626.0
    26
    633.0
    1.60
    FIT
    PILOT HOLE
    634.0
    9 7/8
    634.0
    0.00
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    1882.0
    12 1/4
    1888.0
    1.68
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2130.0
    8 1/2
    2130.0
    0.00
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    160
    1.40
    16.0
    Water Based
    324
    1.13
    11.0
    Water Based
    565
    1.39
    17.0
    Water Based
    633
    1.19
    11.0
    Water Based
    634
    1.13
    11.0
    Water Based
    638
    1.21
    13.0
    Water Based
    1146
    1.30
    14.0
    Water Based
    1619
    1.18
    27.0
    Oil Based
    1642
    1.35
    19.0
    Water Based
    1888
    1.40
    23.0
    Water Based
    1946
    1.15
    14.0
    Water Based
    1993
    1.18
    16.0
    Water Based
    2130
    1.16
    24.0
    Oil Based
    2130
    1.15
    15.0
    Water Based