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16/1-25 S

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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.
    16/1-25 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).
    APPRAISAL
    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
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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
    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.
    16/1-25
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    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.
    Lundin 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.
    1596-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.
    73
    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,
    15.10.2015
    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.
    26.12.2015
    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.
    26.12.2017
    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.
    04.01.2016
    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
    Reentry
    Status whether the wellbore has been re-entered (YES) or not (NO). Re-entered wellbores are not included in the count when wellbores are presented in statistical overviews.
    NO
    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
    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.
    106.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2210.0
    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).
    2121.0
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    58° 46' 57.1'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    2° 15' 17.46'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6516226.12
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    456918.19
    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.
    7775
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 16/1-25 S was drilled on the Utsira High in the North Sea, 2.7 km south of well 16/1-12 (Rolvsnes discovery well). The primary objective was to prove the presence of transgressive Cretaceous and/or Jurassic sandstones overlying the basement and to test the extension of the 16/1-12 discovery in porous basement towards south.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 16/1-25 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Bredford Dolphin on 15 October 2015 and drilled to TD at 2210 m (2121 m TVD) m in the basement rock. The section from 2010 to 602 m was drilled first as a 97/8” pilot hole to check for shallow gas and then opened up with a 26” bit. No shallow gas was observed. The well was drilled as a deviated well (15° through basement) in order to cross more faults and test a wider area and in that way to get better control on variability, quality and thickness of the weathered zones. Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 602 m and with Aquadril mud from 602 m to TD.
    A 10 m transgressive sandstone was prognosed at the base of the Early Cretaceous Åsgard Formation but only 10 cm was observed directly above basement. The top basement was found at 2004.25 m (1922.7 m TVD). The well encountered an oil column of about 30 m in porous and fractured basement rock. The OWC is set 2034.5 m MD RKB (1952 m TVD). The pressure data shows communication with the 16/1-12 oil discovery, with approximately the same oil/water contact. The fluid type is oil with similar properties to the Edvard Grieg oil. Below OVC there was oil shows (direct, cut and residual fluorescence) down to 2067 m, and weaker shows down to 2124 m. There were no shows below this depth or above top Basement.
    Six Cores were cut in succession in the basement from 2002 to 2025.23 m with a total recovery of 97%. The core-log shift varies between 0.07 and 0.342 m. MDT fluid samples were taken at 2012.25 m (oil), 2032.5 m (oil), and 2059.6 m (water). PVT single flash analyses of the samples from 2012.25 m gave GOR in the range 175 to 197 Sm3/Sm3 and oil density in the range 0.847 to 0.849 g/cm3. The samples from 2032.5 m had GOR in the range 168 to 177 Sm3/Sm3 and oil density in the range 0.851 to 0.852 g/cm3.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 26 December 2015 as an oil appraisal.
    Testing
    One production test (DST) was performed in the oil zone from 2006.83 to 2029.26 m. The test produced 47 Sm3 oil and 13300 Sm3 gas per day through a 32/64“ choke. The GOR was 280 Sm3/Sm3. The DST temperature measured at 2019.9 m (1937.8 m TVD) was 77.4°C.
  • 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]
    610.00
    2209.00
  • 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
    2002.0
    2006.0
    [m ]
    2
    2006.0
    2007.6
    [m ]
    3
    2008.0
    2010.8
    [m ]
    4
    2010.8
    2013.3
    [m ]
    5
    2013.4
    2018.6
    [m ]
    6
    2018.8
    2025.2
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    22.5
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Drill stem tests (DST)

    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    From depth MD
    [m]
    To depth MD
    [m]
    Choke size
    [mm]
    1.0
    2007
    2029
    14.3
    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    Final shut-in pressure
    [MPa]
    Final flow pressure
    [MPa]
    Bottom hole pressure
    [MPa]
    Downhole temperature
    [°C]
    1.0
    Drill stem tests (DST)
    Test number
    Oil
    [Sm3/day]
    Gas
    [Sm3/day]
    Oil density
    [g/cm3]
    Gas grav. rel.air
    GOR
    [m3/m3]
    1.0
    47
    13300
    280
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    CMR MRF ADT XPT GR JARS
    2010
    2200
    FMI PPC MSIP GR JARS
    1922
    2210
    MDT PS HY PO SRP PQ IFA MS GR JA
    2012
    2100
    MFI GR
    1922
    2210
    MWD LWD - DIR ECD GR
    130
    602
    MWD LWD - DIR ECD GR RES SON
    182
    600
    MWD LWD - RES GR ECD
    1888
    2000
    MWD LWD - RES GR ECD DEN NEU SON
    559
    2210
    UIB HRLA PEX ECS HNGS
    1922
    2205
    VSI32 GR
    610
    2189
    XL ROCK
    2026
    2039
    XL ROCK
    2045
    2171
  • 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
    210.0
    36
    210.0
    0.00
    SURF.COND.
    20
    596.0
    26
    602.0
    1.55
    FIT
    PILOT HOLE
    602.0
    9 7/8
    662.0
    0.00
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    1922.4
    12 1/4
    1930.0
    1.96
    LOT
    LINER
    7
    2208.0
    8 1/2
    2210.0
    0.00
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    131
    1.40
    20.0
    Spud Mud
    210
    1.04
    10.0
    Spud Mud
    210
    1.40
    10.0
    Spud Mud
    385
    1.40
    16.0
    Water Based
    398
    1.04
    10.0
    Spud Mud
    602
    1.03
    10.0
    Spud Mud
    602
    1.35
    19.0
    Water Based
    602
    1.40
    15.0
    Spud Mud
    1297
    1.39
    16.0
    Water Based
    1568
    1.40
    23.0
    Water Based
    1568
    1.20
    10.0
    Water Based
    1591
    1.40
    20.0
    Water Based
    1962
    1.20
    18.0
    Water Based
    2210
    1.20
    2.0
    Brine
    2210
    1.20
    16.0
    Water Based