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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.
    2/8-1
    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
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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
    Well name
    Official name of the parent well for the wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    2/8-1
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    LINE 70 - 17.
    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.
    Amoco Norway Oil Company
    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.
    7-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.
    218
    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,
    28.11.1967
    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.
    02.07.1968
    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.
    02.07.1970
    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.
    18.01.2007
    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 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.
    17.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    69.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2595.0
    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).
    2594.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    7.75
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    57
    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.
    EOCENE
    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.
    HORDALAND GP
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    56° 17' 47.2'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    3° 26' 59.7'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6239303.15
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    527846.41
    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.
    124
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 2/8-1 was the eighth, and at the time the most southerly exploration well to be drilled in Norwegian waters. The geological objective of the well, in this early stage of exploration, was to test all horizons down to the Permian Rotliegendes Group. The well also had as a technical objective to test the use of a large, single hull vessel for drilling in the North Sea.
    Operations and results
    Well 2/8-1 was spudded with the vessel "Drillship" on 28 November 1967. This was the first drilling operation in Norwegian waters in which a vessel was used. Many problems arose during the drilling of 2/8-1. Repeated failures of the anchor mooring chains at tensions loads of only 10?50 % of their rated breaking occurred. To this, the weather conditions in the North Sea turned out to be more severe than had been predicted. Several storms in the 25 to 30 year category were encountered, and in January a storm that would be expected once every 75?100 years occurred with maximum waves of 15 - 17 m. After this storm the Drillship was in shipyard for repairs and modifications from 19 January to 8 March 1968. Even so, these failures of anchor chains eventually resulted in failure of the BOP stack and 13 3/8" well head after having drilled to 2595 m, and made clear that drilling could not continue safely.
    Besides the mooring problems, other difficulties occurred. While testing in the 12 1/4" hole, the Drill Stem Test (DST) - tool dropped into the hole. The hole was reamed and the fish retrieved. The drill pipe stuck twice when making trips, first at 2118 m. The pipe was not recovered and a fish was left from 2007 - 2118 m. A cement plug was set and the hole side tracked. The pipe stuck again at 2237 m and a new fish was left from 2052 to 2237 m. Two cement plugs were set, one in the 13 3/8" casing shoe and one in the casing from 140 m to sea floor. This occurred in connection with the BOP and wellhead break, and the well was abandoned with TD at 2595 m in Eocene sediments. The well was drilled with bentonite and salt gel down to 351 m, and with bentonite / salt gel / lignite / lignosulphonate from 351 m to TD. Diesel was added to the mud from 2023 m to TD.
    Non-commercial hydrocarbon shows were encountered at 902 - 927 m in Miocene sand stringers. Due to the early termination of the well the main geological objectives were not reached.
    No cores were cut. An attempt to run a wire line Formation Tester at 927 m failed due to poor hole conditions. No logs were run below 2024 m due to severe hole problems.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 2 July 1968 as a dry well with shows.
    Testing
    No drill stem test was performed
  • Lithostratigraphy

    Lithostratigraphy
    Top depth [mMD RKB]
    Lithostrat. unit
    87
    1105
  • Documents – reported by the production licence (period for duty of secrecy expired)

  • Documents – Norwegian Offshore Directorate papers

    Documents – Norwegian Offshore Directorate papers
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    12.73
    pdf
    39.33
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    FDC
    325
    2024
    GR
    86
    325
    IES
    325
    2023
    LL-7
    325
    1923
    MLL-C
    326
    1922
    SGR-C
    325
    2021
    SNP
    325
    1923
    VELOCITY
    327
    2596
  • 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
    144.0
    36
    159.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    327.0
    26
    351.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1693.0
    17 1/2
    1701.0
    0.00
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2596.0
    12 1/4
    2596.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    338
    0.00
    seawater
    609
    1.11
    50.0
    waterbased
    1524
    1.20
    55.0
    waterbased
    2400
    1.22
    55.0
    waterbased