Give whole or part of name of wellbore, licence, field, company, discovery etc. E.g. Aker, Statfjord, 24/12, ABP21014. The main content is not searched.
Official name of wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
30/6-25 S
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 top-hole drilling campaign covering several wellbores.
RE-CLASS TO DEV: Exploration wellbore that is reclassified to a development wellbore and given a new name.
RE-CLASS TO TEST: Exploration wellbore that is reclassified to test production and given a new name.
SUSPENDED: The drilling operation in the wellbore has been temporarily stopped. The current plan is to continue drilling later on.
WILL NEVER BE DRILLED: Wellbore registered with a name and WellID by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate, but which for various reasons will not be drilled.
ONLINE/OPERATIONAL: The wellbore is ongoing, but not completed, may be operations such as drilling, batch-drilling, logging, testing, plugging, preparation for production/injection or temporarily stopped in connection with the operations.
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.
The active production licence of the planned drilling target of the wellbore. This can differ from the production licence the wellbore was drilled from.
Name of the licensee starting the drilling operation on behalf of the active production license. This is usually 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.
940-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.
42
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,
26.11.1998
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.
06.01.1999
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.
06.01.2001
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.
11.04.2003
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.
SHOWS
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.
23.5
Water depth [m]
Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
104.0
Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
2988.3
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).
2935.0
Maximum inclination [°]
Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
28.7
Bottom hole temperature [°C]
Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells.
See discription.
106
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° 30' 45.16'' N
EW degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
2° 43' 15.85'' E
NS UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
6708684.75
EW UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
The main objectives of well 30/6-25 S was to test the potential, fluid types, and reservoir quality of the Brent Group on the Kappa structure, north of the Omega Nord structure in the Oseberg Sør area. The Kappa structure is located in a down faulted position to both the Oseberg Gamma and the Omega Nord structures. The main target was the lower Brent Group, with Oseberg Formation as the main reservoir. The well should furthermore acquire vital pressure data in order to identify likely pressure cell boundaries.
Operations and results
The exploration well 30/6-25 S was spudded on 26 November 1998 with the semi-submersible installation "Transocean Leader" and drilled deviated to a TD of 2988 m (2935m TVD RKB), 63 m TVD into the Early Jurassic Drake Formation. The well was drilled water based with bentonite down to 1046 m and with &AQUACOL& KCl/polyalkylene-glycol mud from 1046 m to TD. The Oseberg Formation was thinner and of poorer reservoir quality than expected, based on log data. The log quality was considered to be good. The Brent Group was penetrated twice which reveals that the well penetrates, at least, one fault. Both Ness and Oseberg Formations were remarkably thinner than expected. Oil shows were pointed out in the lower part of Tertiary and uppermost part of the Cretaceous. In the Brent Group only weak oil shows were observed, and consequently no movable hydrocarbons were stated. The formation pressure data indicate a water gradient similar to the gradient in ORELN on northern part of the Omega Nord structure. There is a water gradient of approximately 1 g/cc throughout the Oseberg, Rannoch, Etive and LN2 (ORELN2) Formations. The relative overpressure in the ORELN2 Formations is around 30 Bar. The water pressure in the Upper Ness sands is 2-3 bar less than the water gradient interpreted in the ORELN2 Formations. In the hydrocarbon filled Upper Ness Sands in well 30/9-3 A the pressure is approximately 10 bar lower than in the ORELN2 Formations. No cores were cut in the well and no fluid samples were taken. The well was permanently plugged and abandoned as a dry well with shows on 6 January 1999.
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