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6407/8-4 A

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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 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
    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 & line496 & 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.
    1183-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.
    26
    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,
    22.05.2008
    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.
    16.06.2008
    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.
    16.06.2010
    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.
    16.06.2010
    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.
    EARLY 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.
    TILJE 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).
    2473.0
    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).
    2319.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    44.5
    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.
    5814

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 6407/8-4 A is a sidetrack from the Galtvort well 6407/8-4 S, located on the eastern margin of the Gimsan Basin in the Norwegian Sea, ca 7 km northwest of the Draugen Field. A main fault separates the middle and northern segments of the Galtvort structure from the southern segment. The southern segment was tested in well 6407/8-4 S and found gas in the Fangst Group. The primary objective of the sidetrack was to test the hydrocarbon potential of prospective formations in the middle and northern segments in order to test the sealing potential of the main fault crossing the structure.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 6407/8-4 A was drilled with the semi-submersible installation West Alpha as a sidetrack. It was kicked off from a milled window (1497 - 1502 m) in the 13 3/8" casing in 6407/8-4 S on 22 May 2008 and drilled to TD at 2473 m (2319 m TVD) in the Early Jurassic Åre Formation. The well was drilled with Glydril mud from kick-off to TD. No significant technical problems were encountered in the operations.
    Prior to drilling it was prognosed that the sidetrack should penetrate the same formations as well 6407/8-4 S. Due to a much larger fault throw between the Middle and the South Galtvort Segments and hence more extensive uplift and erosion of the Middle and North Segments than anticipated, the entire Fangst Group was eroded. As a result the well penetrated directly from the Cretaceous Kvitnos Formation and into the Båt Group at 2117.8 m (2026.7 m TVD). The upper part of the Båt Group consisted of Ror Formation mudstones and only thin Tofte equivalent sandstones of mediocre reservoir quality. The underlying Tilje Formation came in at 2217 m (2106 m TVD) and was gas bearing down to a GWC somewhere in the interval 2175 to 2183 m TVD SS. Weak oil shows were observed in cuttings between 2226 m to 2274 m in the Tilje Formation. Otherwise no oil shows were observed in the sidetrack wellbore.
    No cores were cut in this wellbore. MDT wire line gas samples were taken at 2219 m, 2120.4 m, and at 2121 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 16 June 2008 as a gas discovery.
    Testing
    No drill stem test was performed.
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  • 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]
    1510.00
    2463.00

  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    2830.0
    [m]
    DCS
    HYDRO
    2835.0
    [m]
    DCS
    HYDRO

  • Lithostratigraphy
    Lithostratigraphy
    Top depth [mMD RKB]
    Lithostrat. unit
    284
    284
    997
    1025
    1025
    1658
    1658
    1731
    1910
    1910
    2081
    2118
    2118
    2217
    2424

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    txt
    0.00
    txt
    0.09

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CMR MDT GR
    2110
    2224
    FMI HNGS
    2062
    2473
    MSIP HRLA PEX ECS
    1500
    2476
    MWD - GR RES DIR PWD
    1497
    2473

  • 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
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2062.0
    12 1/4
    2062.0
    1.85
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2473.0
    8 1/2
    2473.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    1507
    1.46
    20.0
    Glydril
    1546
    1.50
    23.0
    Glydril
    1820
    1.50
    21.0
    Glydril
    2062
    1.50
    19.0
    Glydril
    2100
    1.31
    17.0
    Glydril
    2180
    1.31
    15.0
    Glydril
    2222
    1.31
    15.0
    Glydril
    2265
    1.30
    17.0
    Glydril
    2372
    1.30
    20.0
    Glydril
    2473
    1.30
    12.0
    Glydril
    2473
    1.20
    11.0
    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