Factpages Norwegian Offshore Directorate
Factpages Norwegian Offshore Directorate
Factpages Norwegian Offshore Directorate
sodir.no    Norsk
sodir.no          Norsk
22.11.2024 - 09:09
Time of last synchronization with Norwegian Offshore Directorate's internal systems

9/4-3

Export: PDF icon PDF

  • General information
    General information
    Attribute Value
    Wellbore name
    Official name of wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    9/4-3
    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
    Factmaps in new window
    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.
    9/4-3
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    LINE CN9-16
    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.
    Conoco Norway Inc.
    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.
    74-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.
    37
    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,
    14.07.1972
    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.
    19.08.1972
    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.
    19.08.1974
    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.
    22.04.2005
    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.
    28.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    72.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2682.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    0.75
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    68
    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 TRIASSIC
    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.
    SKAGERRAK FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    57° 36' 54.5'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    4° 18' 57.7'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6386770.59
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    578623.15
    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.
    152

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 9/4-3 was drilled on a salt-induced, anticlinal structure in the Egersund Basin in the North Sea, 17 km to the east of the 9/4-1 location. The primary objective was the Middle Jurassic sandstone, but also Triassic sands were considered prospective. Danian and Late Cretaceous chalks were seen as secondary objectives.
    The well is Type Well for the Jurassic Bryne, Sandnes, Tau, and Sauda Formations in the Norwegian-Danish Basin.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 9/4-3 was spudded with the jack-up installation Ocean Tide on 14 July 1972 and drilled to TD at 2682 m in Late Triassic sediments of the Skagerrak Formation. The hole was drilled without significant drilling problems, although heaving shales in the lower Tertiary caused some difficulties. After drilling out the 20" casing shoe at 404 m the drilling fluid was changed from a gelled seawater gel to a lignosulphonate seawater mud system, which was used to TD.
    The only sandy Formation encountered above the Jurassic level was the Late Paleocene Fiskebank Formation at 1150 m, with a 50 m thickness. A complete sequence of Early Cretaceous stages was present between 1967 and 2250 m. The Kimmeridge section also appeared complete and represented entirely by an argillaceous succession. No sandy facies of Early Kimmeridgian/ Late Oxfordian was detected. The Bathonian-Bajocian sandstone/shale sequence between 2490 m to 2613 m (the Vestland Group) is comparable with adjacent wells in the area although clearly thicker in the current section. No oil shows were recorded in any section of the well during drilling and the logs confirmed that the Jurassic and Triassic sections were water wet.
    From organic geochemical analyses source rocks were found in shales of the Late Jurassic Tau and Egersund Formations, and the coals of the Middle Jurassic. The 37 m thick Tau Formation at 2400 m contained an average kerogen type II/III with TOC around 5% and has a rich potential for generation of oil and gas. The Egersund Formation has mainly kerogen type III, TOC in the range 0.5 to 2.5 % and has a good gas potential. The Middle Jurassic coals are believed to have potential for mixed to gaseous hydrocarbons. The geochemical analyses confirmed a well barren of migrated hydrocarbons, with only traces of very early generated in-situ hydrocarbons in late Jurassic shales and Middle Jurassic coals. The well was found immature all through, reaching a vitrinite reflectance of 0.4 % Ro at TD. No conventional cores were cut and no fluid sample taken.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 19 August 1972 as a dry hole.
    Testing
    No drill stem test was performed.

  • Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cuttings available for sampling?
    NO
    Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cutting sample, top depth [m]
    Cutting samples, bottom depth [m]
    158.50
    2682.24

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Composite logs
    Composite logs
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.31

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    1.46

  • 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
    2.34
    pdf
    1.22

  • Documents – Norwegian Offshore Directorate papers
    Documents – Norwegian Offshore Directorate papers
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    13.95
    pdf
    42.22

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    BHC
    401
    1000
    BHC-C
    1070
    2678
    CDM AP
    1951
    2681
    CDM PP
    1951
    2681
    FDC
    1073
    2680
    GR
    61
    401
    GR
    975
    1070
    IES
    402
    1086
    IES
    1086
    2682
    PRESSURE
    1088
    2682
    VELOCITY
    853
    2682

  • Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Depth
    Unit
    3820.00
    [m ]
    3840.00
    [m ]
    3860.00
    [m ]
    3900.00
    [m ]