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9/2-A-4

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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.
    9/2-A-4
    Type
    Wellbore type. Legal values: EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, OTHER (see 'Purpose' for more information)
    DEVELOPMENT
    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).
    PRODUCTION
    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.
    9/2-A-4
    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.
    Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s
    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.
    1167-P
    Drilling facility
    Norwegian Offshore Directorate's name of the facility which the wellbore was drilled from.
    Production facility
    The Norwegian Offshore Directorate's name for the production facility, for development wells.
    YME B ØST
    Drilling days
    Number of days from wellbore entry to wellbore completion.
    53
    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,
    08.06.1996
    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.
    13.08.1996
    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.
    13.08.1998
    Plugged date
    Date when plugging operations was finished, as reported by the operator to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate through DDRS (Daily Drilling Reporting System).
    20.04.1999
    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.
    PRODUCTION
    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.
    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.
    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.
    SANDNES FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    42.3
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    92.8
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    4845.0
    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).
    3377.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    61.8
    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.
    MIDDLE 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.
    BRYNE FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    57° 49' 7.62'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    4° 31' 11.14'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6409693.85
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    590285.15
    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.
    2828
  • Wellbore history

    Well 9/2-A-4 is a development well on the Yme Field in the Norwegian Danish Basin. It was the third Sandnes Formation oil producer drilled on the Yme Gamma Vest structure.
    Operations and results
    Well 9/2-A-4 was spudded and drilled from slot 4 of the Yme template. The A-4 well was planned with an "S" shaped profile, in order to drill vertically through the upper Sandnes Formation in the northerly crestal area of the Gamma Vest structure, to the north of the A-4 slot and well A-8T2.
    The Sandnes S12 target was penetrated at 4630.5 m (3162.8 m TVD RKB), approximately 2887.6 m north of the platform, at an inclination of 17.8 deg. It was oil-filled down to the OWC at 4720 m (3252 m TVD RKB). The well was drilled to TD at 4845 m (3377 m TVD RKB) in the Bryne Formation.
    A total of 68 m cores were cut in three cores at 4635 to 4704.5 m in the Sandnes Formation.
    Production
    The well was produced from the intervals 4677.6 - 4679.2 m, 4667 - 4671.5 m, and 4643.9 - 4654.3 m in the in the Sandnes Formation.
  • 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
    4635.0
    4647.1
    [m ]
    2
    4648.5
    4676.7
    [m ]
    3
    4676.7
    4704.4
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    68.0
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES
  • Core photos

    Core photos
    Core photo at depth: 4635-4640m
    Core photo at depth: 4640-4645m
    Core photo at depth: 4645-4647m
    Core photo at depth: 4648-4653m
    Core photo at depth: 4653-4658m
    4635-4640m
    4640-4645m
    4645-4647m
    4648-4653m
    4653-4658m
    Core photo at depth: 4658-4663m
    Core photo at depth: 4663-4668m
    Core photo at depth: 4668-4673m
    Core photo at depth: 4673-4676m
    Core photo at depth: 4676-4681m
    4658-4663m
    4663-4668m
    4668-4673m
    4673-4676m
    4676-4681m
    Core photo at depth: 4681-4686m
    Core photo at depth: 4686-4691m
    Core photo at depth: 4691-4696m
    Core photo at depth: 4696-4701m
    Core photo at depth: 4701-4704m
    4681-4686m
    4686-4691m
    4691-4696m
    4696-4701m
    4701-4704m
  • 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
    231.0
    36
    231.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    836.0
    26
    836.0
    1.55
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    2004.0
    17 1/2
    2006.0
    1.80
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    4627.0
    12 1/4
    4627.0
    1.55
    LOT
    LINER
    7
    4844.0
    8 1/2
    4845.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CHT GR FMT
    4646
    4817
    CHT GR ZDL CN
    4627
    4831
    MWD - GR RES DIR
    231
    4845
  • Lithostratigraphy

    Lithostratigraphy
    Top depth [mMD RKB]
    Lithostrat. unit
    135
    2240
    3758
    3758
    3865
    4478
    4560
    4631
    4631
    4768
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    148
    1.03
    water
    231
    1.40
    water/bento
    900
    1.50
    water/bento
    2013
    1.65
    water/bento
    4635
    1.40
    water/bento
  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate

    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    4600.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4609.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4618.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4627.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4636.0
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4637.3
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4640.6
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4648.9
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4657.9
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4664.9
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4668.2
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4676.2
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4680.3
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4699.9
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4703.6
    [m]
    C
    GEOSTR
    4712.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4721.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4730.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4739.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4748.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4757.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4766.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4775.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4784.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4793.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR
    4802.0
    [m]
    DC
    GEOSTR