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Official name of wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
34/10-46 B
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
Multilateral
Indicator telling if the parent well is multilateral, meaning it has more than one branch radiating from the main borehole. Example of legal values: YES, NO. See also Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
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.
Statoil ASA (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.
1035-L
Drilling facility
Norwegian Offshore Directorate's name of the facility which the wellbore was drilled from.
Number of days from wellbore entry to wellbore completion.
37
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,
17.03.2002
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.
22.05.2002
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.
22.05.2004
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.
12.05.2004
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.
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.
82.2
Water depth [m]
Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
134.0
Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
7725.0
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).
2088.0
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.
TARBERT FM
Geodetic datum
Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
ED50
NS degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
61° 10' 33.86'' N
EW degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
2° 11' 23.22'' E
NS UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
6782830.47
EW UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
Well 34/10-46 B was drilled to a structure 5 km southwest of the Gullfaks field. Running the liner in well 34/10-46 A failed due to restrictions in the hole and well 34/10-46 B had to be drilled. The primary objectives of the well were to be a water injector in Tarbert Formation in segment D1 and to be a drain point in the top reservoir for oil and gas from Krans Member (Kyrre Formation)/Brent Group in segment D1. The secondary objective was to explore a Cretaceous prospect west of wildcat well 34/10-12.
Operations
The appraisal well 34/10-46 B was spudded on 17 March 2002 from the permanent installation Gullfaks A and drilled to TD at 7725 m (2088 m TVD RKB) into the late Jurassic Viking Group. The well was drilled with OBM to TD.
It was not possible to sidetrack well 34/10-46 B before 6380 m (2017 m TVD RKB). In well 34/10-46 S/46 A/46 B the Brent Group in segment E1 and the Statfjord Formation in segment D1 were reached by the 12 1/4" section. The path of well 34/10-46 B was partly governed by well inclination restrictions in the uppermost part, and by the location of a new Cretaceous sandstone target to the west. The formation changes due to drilling into the Shetland Group, is likely to be the reason for the improper hole quality. The well proved oil down to 1993 m TVD MSL and an oil-leg of at least 5 m in the Brent Group. This oil is interpreted as an appraisal of the oil and gas from Krans Member (Kyrre Formation)/Brent Group in segment D1 in 34/10-46 A. The Brent oil is thus seen as the lower part of a 70 m hydrocarbon column on the structure. Due to a work-over operation on another Gullfaks well, the 8 1/2" section in well 46 B was temporary abandoned after the installation of the 7" liner. A 13 3/8" RTTS was set before the rig was skidded.
The extention of the well 34/10-46 B was drilled to reach a Cretaceous prospect some 1500 m to the west of the crest of segment D1. No Cretaceous sandstone was found.
The reported reservoir pressures in wellbore 46 B are prognosed initial pressures, as no pressure measurements were performed in these well tracks. No fluid samples were collected and no coring was preformed in the well.
The well 34/10-46 B was completed on 27 May 2002 and re-classed to development well 34/10-A 48 B.
Testing
No drill stem test was performed. The well was perforated in the water sone as water injector 34/10-A-48 B.
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