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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.
    1/9-7
    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
    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.
    NO
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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.
    1/9-7
    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.
    Phillips Petroleum Company Norway
    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.
    1048-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.
    134
    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,
    22.03.2003
    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.
    02.08.2003
    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.
    02.08.2005
    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.
    10.10.2012
    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
    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/CONDENSATE
    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.
    PALEOCENE
    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.
    EKOFISK FM
    2nd level with HC, age
    Age of lithostratigraphic unit, 2nd level, where hydrocarbons were encountered. Examples of legal values: CRETACEOUS, EARLY CRETACEOUS, LATE JURASSIC, EOCENE.
    LATE CRETACEOUS
    2nd level with HC, formation
    Name of lithostartigraphic unit, 2nd 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.
    TOR FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    45.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    76.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    4986.0
    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).
    4966.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    16.1
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    180
    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.
    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.
    SMITH BANK FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    56° 24' 31.23'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    2° 52' 55'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6251710.63
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    492714.66
    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.
    4652
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 1/9-7 was drilled on the Tommeliten Alpha structure on the south-western side of the Feda Graben of the North Sea, ca 1.5 km from the UK border. The main objective of well 1/9-7 was to explore the hydrocarbon potential of the Tommeliten Alpha prospect in the Jurassic level. Secondary objective was to appraise the Tommeliten Alpha Chalk discovery made by well 1/9-1 in 1976.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 1/9-7 was spudded with the jack-up installation Mærsk Giant on 22 March 2003. The well was drilled to the TD of the 17 1/2" section at 3040 m by 21 April. Problems with losses at the 20" shoe at 1039 m were remediated by spotting cement at the shoe. The well was inadvertently sidetracked as 1/9-7 T2 while drilling out the cement on 27 April. Unable to re-enter the original borehole after drilling to 1215 m, the 1/9- 7 T2 sidetrack was cemented back to the 20" shoe. The well was then deliberately and successfully sidetracked from 1039 m as 1/9-7 T3 on 4 May 2003. The 17 1/2" hole was re-drilled to a TD of 3058 m and 14" casing set. From there the well was drilled without further significant problems to TD at 4986 m (4965 m TVD) in the Triassic Smith Bank Formation. The well was drilled with seawater/bentonite/CMC down to 1047 m, with Versavert OBM in from 1047 to 3058 m (Versavert was used also in the primary well track and the failed sidetrack), and with Versatherm HTHP mud, a mineral oil based mud, from 3058 m to TD.
    Chalk of the Ekofisk Formation was encountered at 3093 m and top Tor Formation was encountered at 3159 m. Reservoir quality sands were not encountered at any level below the Base Cretaceous Unconformity, although an interval containing very fine sand and silt equivalent to the Oxfordian J50 Sand Unit in the UK well 30/19a-5, 8 km to the WNW, was encountered. The only significant hydrocarbons encountered were in the Ekofisk and Tor Formations in the upper portion of the Chalk Group where oil shows were observed. MDT sampling in Ekofisk proved a gas/condensate. Logs indicated hydrocarbon saturation down to ca 3195 m but no definite hydrocarbon contact was found.
    Petrophysical analyses indicated some hydrocarbon saturation in a thin Miocene Sand Unit at 1675 m (1/9-7 depth) and a thin Andrew Formation sand in the Paleocene from 2989 m to 2992.5 m (1/9-7 T3 depth). None of these had oil shows. Shales in the Mandal Formation at 4315 - 4350 m had definite shows (hydrocarbon odour). However, the oil-based drilling fluids made shows identification difficult below 1047 m.
    Two cores were cut with 100% recovery from 3104 to 3153 m in the Ekofisk Formation. During MDT operations across the Chalk Group, 5 down hole samples were retrieved from 3112 m in the Ekofisk Formation with an MDT dual-packer tool. Upon examination at surface, it was concluded that the samples contained what appeared to be single-phase retrograde gas condensate. From PVT studies it was concluded that the samples are 12-16 wt% contaminated with base-oil drilling mud, geochemical analyses by GC show that apart from the contamination in the range C12 - C20 the 1/9-7 MDT oil is very similar to the oil sampled from 1/9-1 side of the Tommeliten Alpha discovery.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 2 August 2003. The well is classified as dry in the main Jurassic exploration target and is also a positive appraisal of the 1/9-1 Tommeliten Alpha Ekofisk/Tor Formation discovery.
    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]
    320.00
    3020.00
  • 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
    3104.4
    3107.0
    [m ]
    2
    3107.0
    3135.4
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    31.0
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES
  • 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
    308.0
    36
    310.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    1039.0
    26
    1047.0
    1.82
    LOT
    INTERM.
    14
    3050.0
    17 1/2
    3058.0
    2.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 7/8
    3838.0
    12 1/4
    3845.0
    2.16
    LOT
    LINER
    7 5/8
    4604.0
    8 1/2
    4605.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    AIT DSI IPLT HNGS
    1039
    3040
    AIT DSI IPLT HNGS
    3049
    3566
    AIT DSI IPLT HNGS
    4613
    4963
    AIT GPIT DSI IPLT HNGS
    3845
    4609
    CMR
    3090
    3400
    DSI GR
    300
    1039
    DSI IPLT HNGS
    2900
    3049
    DSI IPLT HNGS
    2909
    3845
    DSI IPLT HNGS
    4312
    4613
    GR
    120
    3049
    LWD MWD - DIR
    307
    310
    MDT
    3098
    3300
    MDT CMR GR
    0
    0
    MWD LWD - DGR EWR P4 PWD
    310
    1210
    MWD LWD - DGR EWR P4 PWD
    1042
    3040
    MWD LWD - DGR EWR P4 PWD
    1045
    1210
    MWD LWD - DGR EWR P4 PWD
    1045
    4605
    MWD LWD - DIR
    1210
    1042
    MWD LWD - SS PWD EWR P4 GR
    4986
    4992
    UBI OBMI
    3080
    3350
    VSP CSAT GR
    2100
    4610
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Geochemical information

    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.56
    pdf
    1.78
  • 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
    103.62
    .PDF
    5.71
    .PDF
    1.16
    .PDF
    0.92
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    251
    1.26
    9.0
    BENTONITE
    310
    1.20
    BENTONITE
    495
    1.70
    28.0
    VERSATHERM OBM+
    695
    1.70
    27.0
    VERSATHERM OBM+
    695
    1.15
    11.0
    BENTONITE
    1047
    1.15
    10.0
    BENTONITE
    1210
    1.56
    8.0
    BENTONITE
    1215
    1.74
    45.0
    VERSAVERT OBM
    2495
    1.79
    44.0
    VERSAVERT OBM
    2858
    1.70
    37.0
    VERSATHERM OBM+
    3040
    1.81
    46.0
    VERSAVERT OBM
    3040
    1.81
    45.0
    VERSAVERT OBM
    3058
    1.73
    41.0
    VERSAVERT OBM
    3105
    1.67
    32.0
    VERSATHERM OBM
    3561
    1.66
    37.0
    VERSATHERM OBM
    3845
    1.67
    33.0
    VERSATHERM OBM
    4250
    2.00
    54.0
    VERSATHERM OBM+
    4509
    1.96
    58.0
    VERSATHERM OBM+
    4727
    2.04
    74.0
    VERSATHERM OBM+
    4960
    2.04
    91.0
    VERSATHERM OBM+
    4986
    2.04
    85.0
    VERSATHERM OBM+