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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.
    2/8-15
    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.
    2/8-15
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    GA3D-INLINE 200 & X-LINE 2300
    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.
    834-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.
    43
    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,
    27.11.1995
    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.
    09.01.1996
    Plugged and abondon date
    Date when the P&A-operations of the wellbore was finished, as reported by the operator to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate throught DDRS (Daily Drilling Reporting System). Only applied once pr. wellhead/surface location.
    09.01.1996
    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.
    09.01.1998
    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.
    31.10.2003
    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
    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.
    DRY
    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.
    69.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3750.0
    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).
    3748.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    5.7
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    121
    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.
    LATE CRETACEOUS
    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.
    HOD FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    56° 25' 5.14'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    3° 28' 58.96'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6252857.51
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    529801.71
    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.
    2636
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 2/8-15 was drilled to test the hydrocarbon potential of the "Noekken" prospect, a low stratigraphic Chalk structure northeast of Valhall, lying between the Mode and the Trud salt domes and the Balder nose to the north. The prospect area has been technically active, with reactivation of faults and movements of the salt (until late Tertiary). The main reservoir objective for the Nøkken prospect was within the Late Cretaceous Tor Formation, the main producing interval in the nearby Chalk fields. Secondary potential was identified within the Ekofisk Formation.
    Operations and results
    Exploration well 2/8-15 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation "Vildkat Explorer" on 27 November 1995. A technical sidetrack of the well became necessary when a core head twisted off at 3360.5 m. The well was sidetracked at 3183 m and the new well bore was labelled 2/8-15 T2. Well 2/8-15 T2 was drilled to TD at 3750 m in the Late Cretaceous Hod Formation. The well was drilled with seawater/spud mud down to 1099 m, with "ANCO 2000" / KCl / Glycol mud from 1099 m to 2300 m, and with oil based "ANCO VERT" mud from 2300 m to TD.
    Top chalk was penetrated at 3177 m. Many of the formation tops came in close to forecast and the three identified possible chalk reservoirs; i.e. the upper and lower Ekofisk leads and the Tor Formation were all found to contain fair to good porosity close to prognosis. Lack of hydrocarbons throughout the well was evident and the porous limestones were 100 % water wet. Pore pressures as determined from the MDT were exactly as prognosed. An MDT sample was attempted at 3407 m without success. A further attempt was made at 3314.5 m in order to get a quality formation water sample. About l litre of OBM distillate filtrate fraction was recovered. This was confirmed using chromatograph-fingerprinting analysis conducted by Geoquest Laboratories. However, virgin water samples were derived from the core enabling12 ion analysis and accurate determination of Rw.
    Three orientated cores were cut in the well, all three in the Tor Formation. The first core point was 3360 m. This coring led to the sidetrack operation and only 0.5 m was recovered. Cores two and three were cut successfully (100 % recovery) in the interval 3386 m to 3438.5 m. Onshore geochemical analyses of two core chips at GEOLAB NOR showed that the OBM had invaded the cores. However, the extract from one of the core chips (3404.57 m) gave some weak peaks on the tail of the chromatogram, outside the range of the OBM fingerprint.
    The well was permanently abandoned as a dry well on 9 January 1996.
    Testing
    No drill stem test was performed.
  • 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]
    1110.00
    3750.00
  • 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
    3386.0
    3410.5
    [m ]
    2
    3410.5
    3438.4
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    52.4
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES
  • Core photos

    Core photos
    Core photo at depth: 3386-3391m
    Core photo at depth: 3391-3396m
    Core photo at depth: 3396-3401m
    Core photo at depth: 3401-3406m
    Core photo at depth: 3406-3410m
    3386-3391m
    3391-3396m
    3396-3401m
    3401-3406m
    3406-3410m
    Core photo at depth: 3410-3415m
    Core photo at depth: 3415-3420m
    Core photo at depth: 3420-3425m
    Core photo at depth: 3425-3430m
    Core photo at depth: 3430-3435m
    3410-3415m
    3415-3420m
    3420-3425m
    3425-3430m
    3430-3435m
    Core photo at depth: 3435-3438m
    Core photo at depth:  
    Core photo at depth:  
    Core photo at depth:  
    Core photo at depth:  
    3435-3438m
  • Lithostratigraphy

    Lithostratigraphy
    Top depth [mMD RKB]
    Lithostrat. unit
    94
    1677
    3044
    3044
    3065
    3113
    3163
    3177
    3177
    3346
    3721
  • Composite logs

    Composite logs
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.43
  • Geochemical information

    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.67
  • Documents – reported by the production licence (period for duty of secrecy expired)

    Documents – reported by the production licence (period for duty of secrecy expired)
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    119.43
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    AIT DSI GR
    1088
    3754
    CST
    3336
    3734
    IPL
    2286
    3754
    MDT
    3194
    3558
    MED - DIR GR EWR
    3230
    3333
    MWD - DIR GR
    238
    2300
    MWD - DIR GR
    3080
    3750
    MWD - DIR GR EWR4
    93
    1099
    MWD - DIR GR EWR4
    2300
    3230
    PLUG
    2239
    2239
    VSP
    2000
    3754
  • 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
    251.0
    36
    252.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    1088.0
    26
    1099.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    2286.0
    17 1/2
    2300.0
    0.00
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2303.0
    12 1/4
    2303.0
    0.00
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3750.0
    8 1/2
    3750.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    150
    1.26
    DUMMY
    253
    1.50
    DUMMY
    679
    1.50
    DUMMY
    1099
    1.50
    DUMMY
    1355
    1.67
    36.0
    WATER BASED
    1762
    1.67
    35.0
    WATER BASED
    2039
    1.02
    DUMMY
    2218
    1.67
    37.0
    WATER BASED
    2300
    1.67
    38.0
    WATER BASED
    2364
    1.70
    53.0
    DUMMY
    2732
    1.70
    64.0
    OIL BASED
    3183
    1.71
    48.0
    OIL BASED
    3223
    1.71
    47.0
    OIL BASED
    3246
    1.70
    49.0
    OIL BASED
    3361
    1.71
    51.0
    OIL BASED
    3386
    1.71
    41.0
    OIL BASED
    3411
    1.71
    46.0
    OIL BASED
    3750
    1.71
    43.0
    OIL BASED