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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.
    15/12-15
    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.
    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.
    15/12-15
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    Varg 2002-ph1-linline1835 & crossline 10
    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.
    Pertra AS (OLD)
    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.
    1087-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.
    33
    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,
    19.11.2004
    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.
    21.12.2004
    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.
    21.12.2006
    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.
    21.12.2006
    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.
    88.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3300.0
    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).
    3300.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    1.91
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    122
    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.
    MIDDLE 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.
    SLEIPNER FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    58° 2' 43.92'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 52' 22.98'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6434481.04
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    433470.04
    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.
    5017

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Wildcat well 15/12-15 was drilled on the Maureen Terrace, ca 3 km west of the Varg and 15/12-12 Rev Discoveries. The main object of the well was to drill to Middle Jurassic/Triassic strata with the aim to explore the hydrocarbon bearing potential of Oxfordian age sandstones analogues to the Varg West. Secondary objective was the hydrocarbon potential of Kimmeridge age sandstone immediately above the main Oxfordian reservoir. The well should measure reservoir pressure and fluid gradients, assess the reservoir quality of the Late Jurassic target reservoir, assess reservoir geometry, and confirm geophysical model in terms of depth to top and base reservoir.
    Operations and results
    Well 15/12-15 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Trym on 19 November 2004 and drilled to TD at 3300 m in the Middle Jurassic Sleipner Formation. Apart from some very slow drilling in the interval from 2454 m to 2492 m no significant problems were encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 1370 m, and with a salt saturated /polymer mud system (Performadril) from 1370 m to TD.
    Well 15/12-15 penetrated the Oxfordian sandstone at 3140.5 m. The sand was encountered 92 m TVDSS deeper than expected, and was water-wet. The overlying Kimmeridgian sands within the Heather Formation were approximately 96 metres thicker than prognosed and were also water-wet. Weak possible fluorescence was reported from cuttings within the Kimmeridgian reservoir but post-well geochemical analyses revealed no evidence for hydrocarbons of any kind. MDT pressure measurements found the reservoir to be pressure depleted.
    No cores were cut and no wire line fluid samples taken in the well.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 21 December 2004 as a dry 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]
    1570.00
    3032.00

  • Core photos
    Core photos
    Core photo at depth: 2892-2898m
    Core photo at depth: 2998-2904m
    Core photo at depth: 2904-2910m
    Core photo at depth: 2910-2911m
    Core photo at depth: 2911-2916m
    2892-2898m
    2998-2904m
    2904-2910m
    2910-2911m
    2911-2916m
    Core photo at depth: 2916-2922m
    Core photo at depth: 2922-2928m
    Core photo at depth: 2928-2934m
    Core photo at depth: 2934-2938m
    Core photo at depth: 2939-2945m
    2916-2922m
    2922-2928m
    2928-2934m
    2934-2938m
    2939-2945m
    Core photo at depth: 2945-2951m
    Core photo at depth: 2951-2957m
    Core photo at depth: 2957-2963m
    Core photo at depth: 2963-2967m
    Core photo at depth:  
    2945-2951m
    2951-2957m
    2957-2963m
    2963-2967m

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • 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
    1.33
    .PDF
    2.60
    .PDF
    0.79

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    MDT GR ACTS ECRD
    3148
    3172
    MWD - DGR DM EWR CTN ALD ACAL BA
    1370
    2173
    MWD - DGR EWR CTN ALD ACAL BAT D
    2173
    2454
    MWD - DGR EWR CTN ALD ACAL BAT D
    2454
    3300
    MWD - DGR EWR DM
    175
    1370

  • 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
    175.0
    36
    176.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    13 3/8
    1364.0
    17 1/2
    1370.0
    1.74
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3300.0
    12 1/4
    3300.0
    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
    1.03
    30.0
    SPUD MUD
    1097
    1.03
    50.0
    SPUD MUD
    1370
    1.25
    50.0
    SPUD MUD
    1938
    1.35
    36.0
    PERFORMADRIL
    2417
    1.35
    36.0
    PERFORMADRIL
    2454
    1.35
    33.0
    PERFORMADRIL
    2650
    1.35
    24.0
    PERFORMADRIL
    3300
    1.35
    34.0
    PERFORMADRIL

  • 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