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.
34/10-46 A
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.
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.
Statoil ASA (old)
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.
1032-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.
44
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,
01.02.2002
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.
16.03.2002
Plugged date
Date when plugging operations was finished, as reported by the operator to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate through DDRS (Daily Drilling Reporting System).
16.03.2002
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.
16.03.2004
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.
03.05.2004
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.
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/GAS
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.
LATE CRETACEOUS
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.
NO FORMAL NAME
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.
MIDDLE 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.
TARBERT FM
Kelly bushing elevation [m]
Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
82.2
Water depth [m]
Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
134.0
Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
6860.0
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).
2106.0
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.
TARBERT FM
Geodetic datum
Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
ED50
NS degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
61° 10' 33.86'' N
EW degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
2° 11' 23.22'' E
NS UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
6782830.47
EW UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
Well 34/10-46 A was drilled to a structure 5 km southwest of the Gullfaks field. Due to a water-filled Statfjord Formation in segment D1 in well 34/10-46 S, it was decided to drill a side track, 34/10-46 A to the Brent Group prospect D1. The objectives of the well were to prove oil in a Cretaceous/Brent Group prospect in D1 and to be a water injector in Tarbert Formation.
Operations
The wildcat well 34/10-46 A was spudded on 2 February 2002 from the permanent installation Gullfaks A and drilled to TD at 6860 m (2105,5 m TVD RKB) in the late Cretaceous Shetland Group. The well was drilled with OBM to TD.
Kick-off point was at 3930 m (1667 m TVD MSL). In well 34/10-46 S/46 A/46 B the Brent Group in segment E1 and the Statfjord Formation in segment D1 were reached by the 12 1/4" section. At 6344 m (1920 m TVD MSL, 5 m deeper than prognosed) a gas-filled, pressure-depleted sandstone was encountered. A loss situation arose when drilling out of the sandstone and casing was set close to the top sandstone. From 6401 m to TD the well encountered Shetland shale three times and the Tarbert Formation twice.
The well missed the geological target (40 m to the west of target) and drilled too close to the western edge of the structure. This has resulted in a large uncertainty concerning the age of the uppermost sandstone between 6344 m and 6401 m. The most likely interpretation of the section is Cretaceous age. The well proved a gas column of 20 m in this sandstone (Krans Member/Kyrre Formation) and an oil column of 2 m in the Brent Group. Neither the gas-oil contact nor the oil-water contact was identified due to shale lithology at the respective depths.
The MDT measurements in the Cretaceous sandstones penetrated in 46 A show a pore pressure corresponding to ~1,36 sg EMW, as indicated by pressure prognosis given prior to drilling.
No fluid samples were collected and no coring was performed in the well.
Running the liner in well 34/10-46 A failed due to restrictions in the hole, and the well was plugged back to the 9 5/8" shoe. Pulled out of hole with cement stringer on 16 March 2002 and the well was re-classed to development well 34/10-A-48 A.
The pore pressure data is sourced from well logs if no other source is specified. In some wells where pore pressure logs do not exist, information from Drill stem tests and kicks have been used. The data has been reported to the NPD, and further processed and quality controlled by IHS Markit.
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