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30/9-3

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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.
    30/9-3
    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
    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.
    30/9-3
    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.
    Norsk Hydro Produksjon 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.
    400-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.
    58
    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,
    31.12.1983
    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.
    26.02.1984
    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.
    26.02.1986
    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.
    03.10.2011
    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.
    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.
    YES
    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.
    MIDDLE 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.
    NESS FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    25.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    110.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3113.0
    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).
    3113.0
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    57
    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.
    EARLY 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.
    DRAKE FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    60° 28' 16.33'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    2° 45' 37.55'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6704071.58
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    486827.21
    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.
    55
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 30/9-3 was drilled on the Gamma West structure on the Oseberg Fault Block in the northern North Sea. The primary objective was to find hydrocarbon accumulations in the Middle Jurassic Brent Group. Secondary objective was to find additional hydrocarbon accumulations in the Early Jurassic. Planned TD was ca 75 m below a possible intra Triassic marker to a depth of 4188 +/- 100 m
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 30/9-3 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Nortrym on 31 December 1983. The well was drilled to a depth of 3113 m into Drake Formation shales where the pipe got stuck and parted when pulling out of hole for logging. The fish was not recovered and no wire line logs were recorded below 1713.5 m due to fish in hole. All lithostratigraphic interpretation below this point is therefore based on cuttings description, core description, chromatograph data and ROP information. A sidetrack was decided to complete the well programme. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 625 m and with Invermul/EZmul Oil Based Mud from 625 m to TD.
    The Brent Group (2712-3045 m) consisted of a 259 m thick Ness Formation (2712 - 2971 m) made up of sandstones with stringers of shale, siltstone and coal and 74 m of Etive Formation (2971 - 3045m) sandstones. Based on chromatograph analysis on hydrocarbon samples extracted from core samples a GOC was found at ca 2734 m and an OWC at ca 2815 m, both located in the Ness Formation. From core and chromatograph data the Ness Formation had a gross pay of 103 m. The net gas pay was estimated to 22 m and the net oil pay to 36 m giving a total net pay of 58 m (cut off values porosity < 12%, permeability < l mD). The average porosity was calculated from cores to 22.5 % and average horizontal permeability to 1090 mD. Oil shows were recorded in Maastrichtian limestone in the upper part of the Shetland Group.
    Fifteen cores were cut in the well, all in the Brent Group, twelve in the Ness Formation and three in the Etive Formation. No wire line fluid samples were taken.
    The well was plugged back for sidetracking on 26 February as an oil 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]
    220.00
    3112.00
  • 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
    2714.5
    2715.5
    [m ]
    2
    2716.0
    2719.3
    [m ]
    3
    2719.7
    2735.5
    [m ]
    4
    2735.5
    2753.5
    [m ]
    5
    2753.5
    2781.0
    [m ]
    6
    2781.0
    2800.0
    [m ]
    7
    2802.0
    2824.0
    [m ]
    8
    2824.0
    2842.3
    [m ]
    9
    2842.5
    2860.0
    [m ]
    10
    2860.0
    2869.4
    [m ]
    11
    2870.0
    2888.0
    [m ]
    12
    2888.0
    2906.5
    [m ]
    13
    2995.0
    3007.5
    [m ]
    14
    3008.5
    3026.5
    [m ]
    15
    3026.5
    3030.9
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    223.0
    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
    0.00
    0.00
    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
    221.0
    36
    222.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    616.0
    26
    625.0
    1.51
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1699.0
    17 1/2
    1715.0
    1.70
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3113.0
    12 1/4
    3113.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CDL CAL GR
    615
    1713
    DIFL LSBHC GR SP
    135
    625
    DIFL LSBHC GR SP
    615
    1712
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • 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
    3.23
    pdf
    16.18
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    870
    1.12
    25.0
    30.0
    OIL BASED
    1260
    1.09
    28.0
    16.0
    OIL BASED
    1385
    1.12
    OIL BASED
    1900
    1.33
    32.0
    19.0
    OIL BASED
    2280
    1.40
    30.0
    18.0
    OIL BASED
    2360
    1.41
    29.0
    21.0
    OIL BASED
    2500
    1.43
    31.0
    18.0
    OIL BASED
    2875
    1.45
    35.0
    17.0
    OIL BASED
    2975
    1.44
    45.0
    13.0
    OIL BASED
    3060
    1.49
    39.0
    22.0
    OIL BASED
    3090
    1.44
    38.0
    20.0
    OIL BASED
  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate

    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    3816.2
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3827.0
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3831.0
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3834.0
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3838.0
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3855.5
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3883.0
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3910.5
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3913.5
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3917.5
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB
    3919.5
    [m]
    SWC
    WESTLB