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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.
    6407/7-8
    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.
    NORWEGIAN SEA
    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.
    6407/7-8
    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.
    StatoilHydro Petroleum 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.
    1188-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.
    89
    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,
    18.06.2008
    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.
    14.09.2008
    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.
    14.09.2010
    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.
    14.09.2010
    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.
    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.
    FANGST GP
    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.
    EARLY JURASSIC
    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.
    BÅT GP
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    18.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    293.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    5138.0
    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).
    5105.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    8.9
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    185
    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.
    ÅRE FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    64° 25' 49.3'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    7° 7' 38.5'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    7146478.78
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    409822.02
    UTM zone
    Universal Transverse Mercator zone. Examples of legal values: 31, 32, 33, 34.
    32
    NPDID wellbore
    Norwegian Offshore Directorate's unique id for the wellbore.
    5844

  • Wellbore history
    General
    The 6407/7-8 Noatun well is located in the Gimsan Basin, ca 15 km north of the Njord Field in the Norwegian Sea. The main objective of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in the Ile and Tilje Formations (Noatun C prospect). The structure was expected to contain gas and condensate.
    Operations and results
    An 8 1/2" pilot hole (6407/7-U-1) was drilled to 810 m due to a shallow gas warning.
    Wildcat well 6407/7-8 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation West Alpha on 18 June 2008 and drilled to TD at 5138 m (5105 m TVD) in the Early Jurassic Åre Formation. No overpressured shallow gas was observed by the ROV at the wellhead or by the MWD while drilling the 8 1/2" pilot hole, the 36" hole or the 26" hole. From ca 800 m to ca 3600 m the well was drilled with a ca 8.5 degree deviation, leading to measured depth at TD being 33 m more than true vertical depth. Due to high temperatures in the reservoir section the MDT wire line operations proved difficult and several runs and Mini-DST's failed or did not give valid data. The well was drilled with Spud mud down to 1109 m, with Glydril mud from 1109 m to 2452 m, and with Versatherm oil based mud from 2452 m to TD.
    The well penetrated rocks of Quaternary, Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Jurassic age. A 50 m thick sandstone section was penetrated in the upper Springar Formation and some thin sandstone stringers were penetrated in the Lange Formation, otherwise lithology was mudstone. All sands above BCU were dry. The well proved gas/condensate in both the Fangst and Båt Groups. Gas readings were considered relatively high in the Tertiary with a maximum of 5.3% at 2084 m in the Rogaland Group. The gas levels also increased abruptly when entering the Spekk Formation (maximum 13.1%), and in the reservoirs of the Fangst and Båt Groups. Oil shows were recorded in the intervals 4972 - 5085 m and 5118 - 5127 m in the base Tilje and Åre Formations; else no oil shows were recorded in the well.
    Seven cores were cut in the well. Core no 1 was cut in the Ile Formation, the remaining were cut in the Båt Group. MDT runs were run under very good conditions in calm sea, but it proved difficult to hit the sandstone intervals. The results showed that the different reservoir sections belong to separate pressure regimes. The Garn Formation, the Upper Ror and the Tofte Formations did not have any reservoir quality sands present, while the top part of the Ile Formation was too cemented to get any pressure measurements made. In the Tilje and Åre Formations several good quality pressure measurements were made. Gas samples were taken in the Ile Formation at 4525.8 m, 4525.9 m and 4555.2 m, in the Tilje Formation at 4916.0 m, 4958.25 m and 4958.7 m, and in the Åre Formation at 5016.2 m. A successful MDT mini-DST was performed at 5019.1 - 5020.1 m.
    The well bore was plugged back to 4000 m and permanently abandoned on 14 September 2008 as a gas/condensate discovery. A sidetrack was prepared to define the hydrocarbon/water contact.
    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]
    1120.00
    5138.00

  • 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
    4472.0
    4483.5
    [m ]
    2
    4563.0
    4590.0
    [m ]
    3
    4757.0
    4772.2
    [m ]
    4
    4806.0
    4822.4
    [m ]
    5
    4822.4
    4836.0
    [m ]
    6
    4872.0
    4910.9
    [m ]
    7
    4937.0
    4970.5
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    156.0
    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
    359.0
    36
    363.0
    0.00
    LOT
    PILOT HOLE
    810.0
    8 1/2
    810.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    1095.0
    26
    1109.0
    1.71
    LOT
    INTERM.
    16
    2442.0
    17 1/2
    2452.0
    1.81
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    4253.0
    12 1/4
    4254.0
    1.90
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    5138.0
    8 1/2
    5138.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    AIT LDT APS ECS HNGS HILT GR
    2439
    4245
    CMR GR
    4301
    5075
    EMS OBMI2 GPIT MSIP GR
    4253
    5123
    GPIT PPC MSIP GR
    2000
    4244
    HIT HLDS HAPS ECS HNGS GR
    4254
    5128
    MDT GR
    4459
    5134
    MDT GR
    4461
    5134
    MDT GR
    4525
    4555
    MDT GR
    4525
    4958
    MDT GR
    4528
    4528
    MDT GR
    4915
    5016
    MDT GR
    4916
    4916
    MDT GR
    4958
    4958
    MDT GR
    4962
    5002
    MDT GR
    5015
    5015
    MDT GR
    5019
    5019
    MDT GR
    5019
    5019
    MDT GR
    5032
    5032
    MSCT GR
    4460
    5071
    MWD - GR RES ECD DIR
    4747
    5122
    MWD - RAB FORM PRESS GR RES ECD
    4254
    4458
    MWD - RAB GR RES ECD DIR
    4448
    4752
    MWD- GR RES ECD DIR
    349
    4244
    VSP GR
    353
    5040

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    1109
    1.45
    17.0
    Glydril
    1304
    1.50
    18.0
    Glydril
    1908
    1.62
    21.0
    Glydril
    2106
    1.64
    22.0
    Glydril
    2290
    1.64
    27.0
    Glydril
    2452
    1.64
    19.0
    Glydril
    2452
    1.64
    20.0
    Glydril
    3355
    1.64
    40.0
    Versatherm
    3917
    1.58
    50.0
    Versatherm
    4254
    1.67
    36.0
    Versatherm
    4365
    1.55
    48.0
    Versatherm
    4485
    1.58
    48.0
    Versatherm
    4563
    1.58
    47.0
    Versatherm
    4757
    1.58
    48.0
    Versatherm
    4758
    1.58
    50.0
    Versatherm
    4771
    1.58
    48.0
    Versatherm
    4822
    1.58
    48.0
    Versatherm
    4900
    1.58
    47.0
    Versatherm
    4911
    1.58
    47.0
    Versatherm
    4969
    1.58
    47.0
    Versatherm
    5047
    1.58
    48.0
    Versatherm
    5138
    1.58
    52.0
    Versatherm
    5138
    1.58
    54.0
    Versatherm
    5227
    1.72
    66.0
    Versatherm

  • Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Depth
    Unit
    4481.75
    [m ]
    4573.50
    [m ]
    4770.25
    [m ]
    4829.48
    [m ]
    4879.25
    [m ]
    4941.00
    [m ]
    4949.00
    [m ]
    4958.75
    [m ]
    4966.25
    [m ]
    4969.00
    [m ]