Factpages Norwegian Offshore Directorate
Factpages Norwegian Offshore Directorate
sodir.no          Norsk
25.11.2024 - 01:30
Time of last synchronization with Norwegian Offshore Directorate's internal systems

15/9-22

Export: PDF icon PDF
  • General information

    General information
    Attribute Value
    Wellbore name
    Official name of wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    15/9-22
    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
    Factmaps in new window
    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.
    15/9-22
    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.
    ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway 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.
    1101-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.
    72
    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,
    01.01.2006
    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.
    13.03.2006
    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.
    13.03.2008
    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.
    15.08.2008
    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.
    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.
    22.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    107.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3923.0
    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).
    3918.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    9
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    142
    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.
    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° 20' 42.41'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 40' 55.12'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6468037.00
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    422842.96
    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.
    5174
  • Wellbore history

    Well 15/9-22 is located just south of the Sleipner Vest field in the South Viking Graben of the North Sea. The primary objective of the well was to test the hydrocarbon potential of the Wishbone NE prospect, which was a stratigraphic pinch out trap. The key risks for the prospect were reservoir adequacy (Hugin Formation) and lateral seal. The primary reservoir target was the Upper Hugin Formation (Middle Jurassic Vestland Group), with Middle Jurassic Lower Hugin Formation, Sleipner Formation and Triassic as secondary targets. The anticipated hydrocarbon type was gas with condensate.
    Operations and results
    Well 15/9-22 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Ocean Vanguard on 1 January 2006 and drilled to TD at 3915 m (3923 m logger?s depth), 167 m into the Triassic Skagerrak Formation. A 36" hole was drilled and 30" conductor was successfully run and cemented at 201 m. Due to the probability of shallow gas, a 26" hole was drilled to 508 m and a 20"x18 5/8" casing string set at 204 m. The BOP and riser were run and tested after considerable delays for repairs and waiting on weather. The 17 1/2" hole was drilled to 1531 m, and no shallow gas was seen. The 13 5/8" surface casing was run and became stuck at a depth of 953 m. The casing was cut and fished out of hole from 601 m and a kick-off plug set from 592 m to inside of the 18 5/8" casing at 410 m. The hole was sidetracked (15/9-22 T2) at 522 m on Jan 31 2006, and the new hole was drilled to TD without further significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater down to 508 m and with Glydril KCl mud from 508 m to TD.
    The lithostratigraphic tops below 410 m, as given on this fact page, are from the sidetrack. The Hugin Formation was encountered at 3572 m. It was 141 m thick, of which 40 m had average porosity of 18.1%. From wire line interpretation possible residual hydrocarbon saturation was reported in the uppermost porosity intervals in the Hugin Formation, but otherwise the only hydrocarbon indication in the well was a strong hydrocarbon odour from a cuttings sample from 3408 m in the Draupne Formation. MDT pressures were taken. A dry hole case logging program was performed. No conventional cores or sidewall cores were taken.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 13 March 2006 as a dry well.
  • 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]
    510.00
    3915.00
  • 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
    201.0
    36
    205.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    18 5/8
    504.0
    26
    508.0
    1.58
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 5/8
    1517.0
    17 1/2
    1523.0
    1.89
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2942.0
    12 1/4
    2948.0
    2.03
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3915.0
    8 1/2
    3915.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    DSI MDT GR ACTS ECRD
    1980
    3923
    LWD - GR MPR
    508
    1531
    LWD - GR MPR
    605
    1523
    LWD - GR MPR ORD CCN
    1523
    3915
    VSI
    500
    3915
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Geochemical information

    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    txt
    0.00
    txt
    0.15
    pdf
    3.77
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    205
    1.04
    WBM
    508
    1.04
    WBM
    860
    1.20
    20.0
    WBM
    1308
    1.25
    23.0
    WBM
    1523
    1.25
    23.0
    WBM
    1531
    1.20
    11.0
    WBM
    2860
    1.28
    22.0
    WBM
    2948
    0.00
    WBM
    3261
    1.35
    22.0
    WBM
    3915
    0.00
    WBM
  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate

    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    1980.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2040.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2080.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2200.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2250.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2350.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2400.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2450.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2500.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2600.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2620.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2710.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    2770.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3411.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3450.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3501.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3537.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3552.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3564.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3576.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3615.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3627.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3642.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3699.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3726.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3747.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3806.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3865.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3874.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3900.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO
    3915.0
    [m]
    DC
    FUGRO