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35/3-6

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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.
    35/3-6
    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.
    35/3-6
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    GP3D93 inline 3825 & crossline 1820
    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.
    RWE Dea 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.
    1029-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.
    56
    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,
    06.02.2002
    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.
    02.04.2002
    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.
    02.04.2004
    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.
    18.05.2004
    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.
    23.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    225.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3366.0
    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).
    3366.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    4.2
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    96
    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.
    LATE 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.
    HEATHER FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    61° 53' 36.86'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    3° 59' 15.79'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6862883.49
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    551915.62
    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.
    4492
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Block 35/3 is located where the Måløy Terrace continues into the Selje High. The Selje High has a NE/SW trend, whereas the MåIøy Terrace is dominated by a N-S fault trend.
    The objectives of well 35/3-6 were to test for commercial hydrocarbons and locate any associated hydrocarbon contacts within the Måke Nord prospect, to investigate the Albian Agat Formation, and to obtain and evaluate data required for any potential appraisal drilling.
    Operations and results
    The exploration well 35/3-6 was spudded on 6 February 2002 with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Bergen and drilled to a total depth of 3366 m in the late Jurassic Heather Formation. The 36" section was drilled with seawater and swept with high viscosity pills. The 9-7/8" pilot hole was drilled riser-less with seawater and high viscosity pills and displaced to 1.20 sg mud. This hole was then opened to 17 1/2" with seawater and high viscosity pills and displaced to 1.20 sg mud prior to running the 13 3/8" casing. The 12 1/4" section to TD was drilled with KCl/polymer/glycol mud (Glydril). When drilling the 36" section, a boulder bed was experienced from 270m to 275m (22 m to 27 m below seabed). This led to hole inclination going up from 1 to 3.5 degrees. After setting the 13 3/8" casing, the wellhead was inspected with the ROV and a flow was observed from below the guide base, which was partially covered by debris. After an unsuccessful attempt to stop the flow by grouting the 30" conductor and landing the BOP, a combined cement bond log and temperature log were then run. It was concluded that the water-flow originated from the Utsira Formation sands below 587 m. A bridge plug was set, the casing perforated at 568 m and a cement retainer installed. By repeated injection and partially circulation of kill mud through the perforations, the well was stabilized. A combination of a cross-linked polymer pill and low-density cement was placed in the annulus, which effectively stopped the flow.
    The observed formation tops from seafloor to the primary target top Agat Formation were in accordance with the prognosis with only minor differences observed. An approximate 90 m of Agat Formation sandstone was anticipated, but only 2.5 m was present in the well location. As a consequence, both the Top Åsgard Formation and the Base Cretaceous Unconformity came in much shallower than prognosed. The 2.5 m thick Agat Formation consisted of carbonate cemented sandstone with traces of hydrocarbons. Otherwise the well encountered no hydrocarbon bearing intervals. No reservoir was found. The majority of the prospect strata are older than the Agat reservoir sandstones of the Agat Formation observed in offset wells. The space available for deposition defined by isopachs was filled with mostly Barremian shales prior to sandstone input in the Albian. This resulted in bypass and erosion rather than deposition in the prospect area during Albian times.
    The cutbacks observed from the resistivity could indicate increasing pore pressure. Other parameters like gas does not confirm this but the gas readings were low and as such indicate a huge overbalance. No cores were cut and no fluid samples were collected in well 35/3-6.
    The well 35/3-6 was plugged and abandoned as a dry well. The anchors were pulled on 1 of April.
    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]
    1310.00
    3366.00
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Composite logs

    Composite logs
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.32
  • 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
    3.29
    .pdf
    2.17
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CSAT GR (LEH-QT)
    589
    3333
    CST GR (LEH-QT)
    2940
    3365
    MWD - CDR
    309
    983
    MWD - CDR
    309
    1300
    MWD - CDR
    983
    1300
    MWD - CDR
    1300
    1986
    MWD - CDR
    1986
    2369
    MWD - CDR
    2369
    2695
    MWD - CDR
    2695
    3366
    USIT GR CCL AMS
    256
    1209
    ZOVSP
    589
    3335
  • 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
    309.0
    36
    310.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1294.0
    17 1/2
    1300.0
    1.45
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2686.0
    12 1/4
    2690.0
    1.50
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3366.0
    8 1/2
    3366.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    260
    1.32
    80.0
    GLYDRIL
    935
    1.03
    120.0
    SPUD MUD
    1228
    1.14
    73.0
    GLYDRIL
    1265
    1.14
    63.0
    GLYDRIL
    1300
    1.20
    100.0
    SPUD MUD
    1485
    1.25
    66.0
    GLYDRIL
    1545
    1.32
    67.0
    GLYDRIL
    1821
    1.29
    74.0
    GLYDRIL
    1892
    1.32
    73.0
    GLYDRIL
    1985
    1.32
    95.0
    GLYDRIL
    2250
    1.32
    80.0
    GLYDRIL
    2695
    1.32
    71.0
    GLYDRIL
    2699
    1.32
    85.0
    GLYDRIL
    2910
    1.32
    75.0
    GLYDRIL
    3079
    1.32
    75.0
    GLYDRIL
    3366
    1.32
    72.0
    GLYDRIL