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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.
    15/12-16 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.
    RE-CLASS TO DEV
    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.
    15/12-16
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    Varg2002-PH1&inline:1912&crossline:882
    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.
    Talisman Energy 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.
    1107-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.
    54
    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,
    06.02.2006
    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.
    31.03.2006
    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.
    31.03.2008
    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.
    15.08.2008
    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
    Reclassified to wellbore
    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/CONDENSATE
    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 HEATHER FM SS
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    40.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    87.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2961.0
    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).
    2897.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    28.6
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    123
    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.
    TRIASSIC
    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.
    SKAGERRAK FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    58° 1' 40.39'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 55' 27.97'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6432466.91
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    436472.19
    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.
    5271

  • Wellbore history
    Well 15/12-16 S was drilled to appraise the Varg Field in the Southern Viking Graben area of the North Sea. Three wells had been drilled on the field, 15/12-12 and 15/12-13 B (gas condensate) and one dry well 15/12-13. Well 15/12-13 A failed while in the Rogaland Formation. These 3 wells delineate the Western Flank of the field, while 15/12-16 S should seek to add proven reserves in the central panel.
    The primary objective for the well was to produce gas condensate from the Oxfordian reservoir in the central panel and to determine by DST whether surrounding faults form barriers to production. Secondary objectives were to acquire reservoir pressure data, formation depths, cuttings, log and drill data for reservoir description and reservoir performance prediction.
    Operations and results
    Well 15/12-16 S was spudded with the jack-up installation Mærsk Giant on 6 February 2006 and drilled to TD at 2961 m, 47 m into the Triassic Skagerrak Formation. No major drilling problems or incidents occurred during the drilling of the well. The 8 ½" section was drilled in one bit run. The well was drilled with seawater and KCl/polymer down to 1319 m, with Performadril WBM from 1319 m to 2835 m, and with Baradril-N WBM from 2835 m to TD.
    The well encountered the top reservoir Oxfordian sandstone at 2836 m (2787 m TVD RKB), 70 m high to prognosis and encountered a reservoir section thinner than predicted (83 m MD vs. 130 m). Preliminary interpretation indicated that the top of the reservoir section was faulted out and that RZ2 is very condensed. Reservoir quality was slightly poorer than was predicted with low porosities in the lower part but is still good. Logs and MDT pressure data showed the reservoir was gas filled but no definite gas-water contact was defined.
    Dull yellow/gold mineral fluorescence, poor slow white cuts and poor crush cuts were noted on the cuttings in top of the Tor Formation. In the gas filled Oxfordian sandstone dull blue white slow cloudy cut fluorescence was observed, no direct fluorescence. Otherwise there were no shows reported from the well.
    No cores were cut and no wire line fluid samples were taken.
    The well was suspended on 31 March 2006 as a Varg South gas producer.
    Testing
    The well was completed with a 7" liner across the reservoir and perforated at intervals 2850 m to 2884 m for testing. An extended testing program was carried out, with the main flow period flowing at a steady rate of 1190000 Sm3 gas/day through a 72/64" choke. The average condensate-gas ratio was 49.7 bbl/MMSCF corresponding to a GOR of ca 3600 Sm3/Sm3. Sampling results gave a condensate gravity of 52.3 deg API, a gas gravity of 0.692 with 2ppm H2S and 2 % CO2.

  • 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]
    220.00
    2961.00

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Drill stem tests (DST)
    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    From depth MD
    [m]
    To depth MD
    [m]
    Choke size
    [mm]
    1.0
    2850
    2884
    28.6
    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
    332
    1190000
    0.692
    3600

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    AIT DSI GR
    187
    2962
    LDL APS
    2414
    2961
    MDT
    2840
    2949
    MWD
    2495
    3019
    MWD LWD - EWR GR PWD DM GYRO
    187
    1319
    MWD LWD - GR RES DIR PWD
    1319
    1365
    MWD LWD - GR RES DIR PWD ABG
    1365
    2835
    MWD LWD - GR RES PWD
    2835
    2961
    VSP (CSI)
    2025
    2950

  • 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
    187.0
    36
    191.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    13 3/8
    1312.0
    17 1/2
    1319.0
    1.80
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2826.0
    12 1/4
    2835.0
    1.20
    LOT
    LINER
    7
    2955.0
    8 1/2
    2961.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    0
    1.10
    80.0
    WATER BASED
    0
    1.50
    WATER BASED
    0
    1.50
    WATER BASED
    0
    1.50
    WATER BASED
    0
    1.03
    OTHER
    0
    1.50
    WATER BASED

  • 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
    0.23