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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.
    15/6-8 A
    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
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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
    Well name
    Official name of the parent well for the wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    15/6-8
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    MC3D-Q15 LINE 1659 & CDP 4332
    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.
    Deminex Norge 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.
    886-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.
    14
    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,
    05.04.1997
    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.
    18.04.1997
    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.
    18.04.1999
    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.
    31.10.2003
    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.
    25.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    102.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2480.0
    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).
    2422.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    25.6
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    77
    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.
    HEIMDAL FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    58° 32' 57.58'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 52' 55.9'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6490561.26
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    434940.96
    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.
    3077

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Block 15/6 is situated on the eastern flank of the southern part of the South Viking Graben, lying in a transition zone on a system of faulted terraces between the main Viking Graben to the west and the Utsira High to the east. The primary objective of the 15/6-8 S well was to test the hydrocarbon potential of the Middle Jurassic Hugin Formation within a seismically defined structural trap. A secondary objective was the Heimdal Formation sandstone ("C-Prospect") which was prognosed to be penetrated in a down dip flank location, but within structural spill.
    The sidetrack 15/6-8 A was designed to test the "C-prospect" in a more optimal crestal location, some 1000 m to the west of the well position.
    Other potential reservoir horizons existed in the Early Tertiary Skade and Grid Formations. These were not within mapped structural closure in any of the well trajectories. The well programmes were designed to maximise the evaluation of these sections.
    Operations and results
    Exploration well 15/6-8S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation "Byford Dolphin" on 18 February 1997 and drilled as a vertical hole to a depth of 1538 m, before kicking off in a NNW direction towards the Middle Jurassic primary objective. The final TD was reached at 3225 m MD (3122.5 m TVD SS) in the Triassic Skagerrak Formation. The well was drilled with Seawater and bentonite down to 512 m, with KCl / polymer mud from 512 to 1650 m, and with KCl / polymer / glycol from 1650 m to TD.
    The Quaternary and Tertiary sequence of 2550 m thickness (2493 m True Vertical Thickness, TVT) was represented by the Nordland, Hordaland and Rogaland Groups. Mudstone lithologies dominated, but significant thick sandstone development was present in the Utsira, Skade, Grid, and Heimdal Formations.
    The Shetland Group comprised the Early Palaeocene Ekofisk and the Late Cretaceous, Tor, Hod, Blod°ks and Svarte Formations. This 408 m sequence (389 m TVT) was dominated by carbonate lithologies. There were no intervals of reservoir potential. The Early Cretaceous was primarily recognised from well site micropalaeontological analysis of ditch cuttings as a very thin but condensed lithological sequence (4.5 m). It is interpreted as the Åsgard Formation. The Draupne Formation was penetrated at 3089.5 m (2988.6 m TVD SS), and the Heather Formation at 3117.5 m (3016.2 m TVD SS). The primary objective Hugin Formation was penetrated at 3164.5 m, (3062.6 m TVD SS). It consisted of 9 m of sandstone with some minor claystone intercalations, passing into the Triassic Skagerrak Formation at 3173.5 m (3071.4 m TVD SS). Sandstone lithology continued to 3191 m, below which claystone with thin sandstone interbeds became the dominant lithology.
    No hydrocarbon shows were recorded or noted within any of the potential reservoir sections in the well. FMT and petrophysical evaluation confirmed all zones to be water bearing with a complete absence of hydrocarbons.
    A total of four log runs, were successfully completed at well TD, the first 2 on wire line, the second 2 were pipe conveyed. A 5th run (walk away VSP) was abandoned after 2 1/2 x 6 km lines due to loss of air pressure at the offset source. On rigging up the wire line logging tools the logging contractor Western Atlas was unable to detect marks on the cable and unable to determine the fault. The cable was changed out, but the second cable was again found to be faulty. As a result of the problems, depth matching between log runs had an error factor of at least +/-2m. The first log in the hole, DLL/MLL/DAC/GR/CHT run 1/1, was therefore used as the reference log giving a consistent error for all further runs. Depth mismatching was further exacerbated by the need to run wire line pipe conveyed, and open hole sticking with accelerometer correction required in certain instances. No fluid sample was taken in the well. One core was cut in the Hugin and Skagerrak Formations in the interval 3172 m to 3181.5 m (8.85m recovered).
    Well 15/6-8 S was permanently plugged back to the 9 5/8" casing shoe and abandoned as a dry well on 5 April 1997. Well 15/6-8 A was kicked off from below the 9 5/8" casing at 1525 m and drilled to TD at 2480 m (2397 m TVD SS) in the Heimdal Formation, below the mapped structural spill point. The sidetrack was drilled with KCl / Polymer / Glycol mud from kick-off to TD.
    The Quaternary and Tertiary sequence of at least 2353 m thickness (2295 m TVT) was represented by the Nordland, Hordaland and Rogaland Groups. Mudstone lithologies dominated, but significant thick sandstone development was present in the Utsira, Skade, Grid and Heimdal Formations. No hydrocarbon shows were recorded within any of the potential reservoir horizons. The logging operations suffered similar problems as in the primary well bore leading to similar uncertainty in depth correlation of the logs. No fluid samples were taken. One conventional core was cut over the interval 2438 m to 2449 m (10.2m recovered) in the Heimdal Formation.
    Well 15/6-8 A was permanently abandoned as a dry well on 18 April 1997.
    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]
    1530.00
    2478.00

  • 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
    2438.0
    2448.2
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    10.2
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • Core photos
    Core photos
    Core photo at depth: 2438-2443m
    Core photo at depth: 2443-2448m
    Core photo at depth: 2448-2449m
    Core photo at depth:  
    Core photo at depth:  
    2438-2443m
    2443-2448m
    2448-2449m

  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    1990.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2010.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2030.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2050.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2070.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2100.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2120.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2140.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2160.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2180.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2200.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2220.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2240.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2260.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2280.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2300.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2320.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2340.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2360.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2379.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2400.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2400.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2421.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2436.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2460.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI
    2478.0
    [m]
    DC
    RRI

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Composite logs
    Composite logs
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.35

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.81

  • Documents – reported by the production licence (period for duty of secrecy expired)
    Documents – reported by the production licence (period for duty of secrecy expired)
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    6.77
    pdf
    42.13

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CBIL HEXDIP GR TTRM
    1490
    2460
    MLL DLL DAC GR TTRM
    1490
    2473
    MWD - DIR GR
    127
    512
    MWD LWD - DIR GR RES
    512
    1505
    MWD LWD - DIR GR RES PWD
    1495
    2438
    VSP
    127
    2435
    ZDL CN SL TTRM
    1490
    2469

  • 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
    175.5
    36
    177.5
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    13 3/8
    499.0
    17 1/2
    512.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    1492.0
    12 1/4
    1510.0
    1.41
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2480.0
    8 1/2
    2480.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    150
    1.35
    25.0
    KCL/POLYMER
    1890
    1.39
    29.0
    KCL/POLYMER
    2300
    1.39
    34.0
    KCL/POLYMER
    2438
    1.39
    32.0
    KCL/POLYMER
    2480
    1.39
    40.0
    KCL/POLYMER