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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.
    15/12-5
    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.
    P&A
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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.
    15/12-5
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    ST 8503 - 109 SP. 306
    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.
    Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s
    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.
    507-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,
    12.03.1986
    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.
    04.05.1986
    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.
    04.05.1988
    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.
    06.01.2015
    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.
    OIL
    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.
    HUGIN FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    22.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    84.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3150.0
    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).
    3149.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    3.6
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    135
    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 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° 4' 53.36'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 54' 53.24'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6438443.61
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    435998.33
    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.
    113

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 15/12-5 was drilled on the Beta Central structure ca 3.3 km north-east of the 15/12-4 Varg discovery well in the North Sea. Primary objective was the Jurassic sandstones. Secondary objective was the Frigg Formation sand and fractured limestone of Cretaceous age. Seismic anomalies indicated shallow gas. Prognosed TD was 3100 m RKB in sandstone of Triassic age.
    Operations and results
    Well 15/12-5 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Ross Isle on 12 March 1986 and drilled to TD at 3150 m in the Late Triassic Skagerrak Formation. No shallow gas was encountered. Drilling proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with Spud mud down to 217 m, with gel/seawater/XC-polymer from 217 m to 619 m, with gypsum/polymer mud from 619 m to 2889 m, and with gel/lignosulphonate/lignite from 2889 m to TD.
    Top Cretaceous came in at 2457 m, and top Jurassic at 2841 m. Top of the reservoir, an Oxfordian sandstone, was encountered at 2918 m with good shows. The OWC was found at 2942 m, 28 m below that of well 15/12-4. This is probably due to a flow barrier caused by the fault system with a maximum throw of ca 100 m that separates the Beta West and Beta Central structures. Due to FMT pressure measurements and fluid samples, Statoil decided to go for "sole risk" testing, since Esso denied participating in the testing program.
    Three cores were cut in the interval 2892 m to 2967 m with 100% recovery. The core-log depth shifts were small, in the range 0.0 to -0.5 m for all three cores. FMT fluid samples were taken at 2919.3 m (oil), 2923.5 m, 2937.0 m (oil), and at 2941.5 m (water mud filtrate and a little oil).
    The well was permanently abandoned on 4 May 1986 as an oil appraisal of the Varg Field.
    Testing
    One DST test was performed in the interval 2926 m to 2936 m. The test produced 520 Sm3 oil and 42000 Sm3 gas /day through a 40/64” choke. The GOR was 81 Sm3/Sm3, oil gravity was 0,909 g/cm3, and the gas gravity was 0.795 (air = 1). The test temperature was 127 °C.

  • Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cuttings available for sampling?
    NO
    Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cutting sample, top depth [m]
    Cutting samples, bottom depth [m]
    240.00
    3150.00

  • 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
    2892.0
    2904.0
    [m ]
    2
    2910.5
    2938.5
    [m ]
    3
    2939.0
    2967.0
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    68.0
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • Oil samples at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Oil samples at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Test type
    Bottle number
    Top depth
    MD [m]
    Bottom depth
    MD [m]
    Fluid type
    Test time
    Samples available
    DST
    FMT2
    2937.00
    2937.00
    20.04.1986 - 00:00
    YES

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.12
    pdf
    4.11
    pdf
    4.17
    pdf
    0.13

  • 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
    1.67
    pdf
    18.98

  • Drill stem tests (DST)
    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    From depth MD
    [m]
    To depth MD
    [m]
    Choke size
    [mm]
    1.0
    2926
    2936
    15.9
    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    Final shut-in pressure
    [MPa]
    Final flow pressure
    [MPa]
    Bottom hole pressure
    [MPa]
    Downhole temperature
    [°C]
    1.0
    33.000
    24.000
    34.000
    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
    560
    46000
    0.900
    81

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    ACBL VDL GR
    100
    3100
    CDL CNL GR CAL
    217
    3150
    COREGUN
    2280
    2885
    COREGUN
    2879
    3138
    DIFL ACL GR SP CAL
    217
    3150
    DIP
    2876
    3150
    FMT
    2919
    3009
    FMT
    2933
    2950
    FMT
    2937
    0
    MLL GR
    2875
    3134
    MWD
    106
    2883
    VSP
    285
    3150

  • 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
    217.0
    36
    217.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    597.0
    26
    618.0
    1.37
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1608.0
    17 1/2
    1625.0
    1.72
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2875.0
    12 1/4
    2892.0
    2.18
    LOT
    LINER
    7
    3149.0
    8 1/2
    3150.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    217
    1.10
    10.0
    WATER BASED
    17.03.1986
    217
    1.10
    6.0
    13.4
    WATER BASED
    17.03.1986
    618
    1.16
    7.0
    17.0
    WATER BASED
    20.03.1986
    698
    1.10
    52.0
    8.0
    WATER BASED
    24.03.1986
    1068
    1.10
    54.0
    8.5
    WATER BASED
    02.04.1986
    1337
    1.11
    52.0
    8.1
    WATER BASED
    02.04.1986
    1600
    1.57
    20.0
    4.3
    WATER BASED
    02.05.1986
    1622
    1.18
    52.0
    9.0
    WATER BASED
    02.04.1986
    1622
    1.22
    55.8
    8.5
    WATER BASED
    02.04.1986
    1768
    1.22
    60.0
    8.6
    WATER BASED
    02.04.1986
    2084
    1.27
    63.0
    8.6
    WATER BASED
    02.04.1986
    2223
    1.27
    65.0
    9.1
    WATER BASED
    02.04.1986
    2341
    1.57
    60.0
    11.0
    WATER BASED
    03.04.1986
    2445
    1.57
    32.0
    10.0
    WATER BASED
    04.04.1986
    2445
    1.57
    32.0
    10.0
    WATER BASED
    07.04.1986
    2570
    1.57
    31.0
    8.6
    WATER BASED
    07.04.1986
    2590
    1.57
    30.0
    8.6
    WATER BASED
    07.04.1986
    2687
    1.57
    30.0
    8.6
    WATER BASED
    09.04.1986
    2735
    1.57
    33.0
    9.1
    WATER BASED
    09.04.1986
    2798
    1.57
    30.0
    8.6
    WATER BASED
    10.04.1986
    2840
    1.57
    31.0
    8.6
    WATER BASED
    11.04.1986
    2876
    1.57
    30.0
    9.1
    WATER BASED
    14.04.1986
    2885
    1.35
    19.0
    6.2
    WATER BASED
    30.04.1986
    2889
    1.57
    30.0
    9.1
    WATER BASED
    14.04.1986
    2889
    1.57
    28.0
    8.6
    WATER BASED
    14.04.1986
    2892
    1.35
    26.0
    7.2
    WATER BASED
    16.04.1986
    2918
    1.35
    18.0
    6.2
    WATER BASED
    17.04.1986
    2965
    1.35
    17.0
    5.3
    WATER BASED
    18.04.1986
    2966
    1.35
    20.0
    6.2
    WATER BASED
    23.04.1986
    3150
    1.35
    19.0
    5.3
    WATER BASED
    23.04.1986
    3150
    1.35
    19.0
    6.2
    WATER BASED
    25.04.1986

  • Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Depth
    Unit
    2944.30
    [m ]

  • 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
    0.22