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6407/8-4 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.
    6407/8-4 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).
    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.
    NORWEGIAN 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.
    6407/8-4
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    BPN9501R05 &line 496 & trace 2708 & seismic 3D survey
    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.
    StatoilHydro Petroleum 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.
    1182-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.
    32
    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,
    20.04.2008
    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.
    21.05.2008
    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.
    21.05.2010
    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.
    21.05.2010
    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.
    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.
    MIDDLE 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.
    GARN FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    18.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    266.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2788.0
    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).
    2650.3
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    39
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    104
    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 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.
    ÅRE FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    64° 26' 47.8'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    7° 38' 54.2'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    7147652.53
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    434947.46
    UTM zone
    Universal Transverse Mercator zone. Examples of legal values: 31, 32, 33, 34.
    32
    NPDID wellbore
    Norwegian Offshore Directorate's unique id for the wellbore.
    5813
  • Wellbore history

    General
    The Galtvort well 6407/8-4 S is located on the eastern margin of the Gimsan Basin in the Norwegian Sea, ca 7 km northwest of the Draugen Field. The primary objective was to test the hydrocarbon potential of the Middle Jurassic Garn and Ile Formations of the Galtvort prospect. The secondary objective was to test the hydrocarbon potential of prospective formations in the Early Jurassic Båt Group.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 6407/8-4 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation West Alpha on 20 April 2008 and drilled to TD at 2788 m (2650.3 m TVD) in the Early Jurassic Åre Formation. The well was drilled vertical down to 1240 m, and then deviated with up to 39 deg inclination at 1980 m, then falling off to 19.5 deg at TD. The well was drilled with water based spud mud down to 930 m, and with Glydril mud from 930 m to TD. No significant technical problems were encountered in the operations. No shallow gas was observed by the ROV at the wellhead or by the MWD while drilling the 26" hole.
    The well penetrated rocks of Quaternary, Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Jurassic age. The Garn reservoir section was encountered at 2212 m (2118 m TVD), 77 m shallower than prognosed, and proved a GWC at 2280 m (2178 m TVD). The remaining reservoirs were found to be water bearing, but residual oil staining and high gas readings from cuttings during drilling, log responses and oil shows on core indicated residual hydrocarbons in the Ile Formation.
    One 27.2 m core was cut from 2221.0 - 2248.2 m in the Garn Formation. The general lithology in this core was sandstone with traces of claystone. A second core was cut from 2379.0 - 2405.3 m (26.3 m long) in the Ile Formation. The general lithology in this core was sandstone with shale laminations. MDT wire line gas samples were taken at 2232 m and at 2186.5 m. Sampling was performed with only a few bar drawdown and the samples are believed to be representative of the formation fluids.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 21 May 2008 as a 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]
    940.00
    2788.00
  • 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
    2221.0
    2248.2
    [m ]
    2
    2379.0
    2405.3
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    53.5
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Geochemical information

    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    txt
    0.00
    txt
    0.07
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CMR HRLA PEX ECS HNGS
    2177
    2788
    FMI GR
    2180
    2780
    FMI PPC MSIP PPC GR
    1500
    2785
    MDT GR
    2186
    2737
    MDT GR
    2186
    2186
    MSCT GR
    2181
    2426
    MWD - DIR
    284
    347
    MWD - GR RES DIR
    347
    930
    MWD - GR RES DIR PWD
    930
    2015
    MWD - GR RES DIR PWD DEN NEU TT
    2015
    2221
    MWD - GR RES DIRPWD OT
    2221
    2788
    VSP GR
    743
    2785
  • 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
    345.0
    36
    347.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    917.0
    26
    930.0
    1.68
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    2004.0
    17 1/2
    2015.0
    1.91
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2175.0
    12 1/4
    2219.0
    0.00
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2788.0
    8 1/2
    2788.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    920
    1.39
    18.0
    Glydril
    1362
    1.45
    20.0
    Glydril
    1808
    1.30
    20.0
    Glydril
    2015
    1.46
    18.0
    Glydril
    2024
    1.41
    19.0
    Glydril
    2028
    1.41
    20.0
    Glydril
    2219
    1.41
    20.0
    Glydril
    2220
    1.30
    14.0
    Glydril
    2249
    1.30
    14.0
    Glydril
    2405
    1.30
    16.0
    Glydril
    2788
    1.30
    17.0
    Glydril
  • Pressure plots

    Pressure plots
    The pore pressure data is sourced from well logs if no other source is specified. In some wells where pore pressure logs do not exist, information from Drill stem tests and kicks have been used. The data has been reported to the NPD, and further processed and quality controlled by IHS Markit.
    Pressure plots
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.30