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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.
    15/12-23
    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.
    15/12-23
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    inline 3341 & xline 5243
    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.
    Talisman Energy Norge 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.
    1296-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.
    59
    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,
    01.04.2010
    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.
    29.05.2010
    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.
    29.05.2012
    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.
    29.05.2012
    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.
    APPRAISAL
    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
    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.
    MIDDLE JURASSIC
    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.
    SLEIPNER FM
    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.
    LATE TRIASSIC
    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.
    SKAGERRAK FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    26.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    86.5
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3485.0
    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).
    3478.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    9.9
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    128
    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.
    58° 13' 0.78'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 53' 3.87'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6453546.42
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    434456.03
    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.
    6327
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 15/12-23 was drilled to appraise the Grevling Discovery in the Southern Viking Graben in the North Sea. The objective was to seek a deeper oil reservoir, or an oil water contact, within the Sleipner Formation, while addressing reservoir distribution and quality along with oil type and to prove up additional reserves in the Grevling discovery in the Hugin, Sleipner and Skagerrak formations sandstones.
    Operations and results
    Appraisal well 15/12-23 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Transocean Winner on 1 April 2010 and drilled to TD at 3485 m in the Late Triassic Skagerrak Formation. No significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with Hi-Vis Bentonite Sweeps down to 176 m, with KCl/GEM mud from 176 m to 1200 m, and with ENVIROMUL oil based mud from 1200 m to TD.
    The prognosed top reservoir Hugin Formation was absent. Instead a silty Intra Heather Formation Sandstone was found directly on the Sleipner Formation. The Sleipner Formation came in at 3164 m and proved to be the main reservoir with coals and massive sandstones interbedded with siltstone. The top of the Sleipner was picked on the log response of coals present at the top of the Formation, and coals seen in the samples. Top reservoir sandstones came in at 3179 m only 1 m deep to prognosis. The reservoir comprises the Sleipner and Skagerrak Formations at this well location. The Skagerrak Formation came in at 3192 m 56 m shallower than the prognosis. Top Skagerrak was picked 54 m shallower from core biostratigraphy than from seismic and petrophysical logs. An OWC, possibly ODT, was picked at 3251 m in the Skagerrak Formation. Shows were observed on cuttings in the Sleipner sandstones and varied from no show to very good show in clean sands before pulling out to cut core at 3187 m. Shows from top cored interval in the Sleipner Formation at 3187 m continued into the Skagerrak Formation and down to 3230m.
    Two cores were cut, core 1 from 3187 m to 3241.5 m and core 2 from 3241.5 m to 3296 m, giving a total of 109 m of core. Cores must be depth shifted down 4.6 meter to match the logs. The MDT was run and 18 good pressure points were obtained. Fluid samples were taken at 3191 (oil), 3232 m (oil), 3264 (water), 3285 (water), and 3336 (water).
    The well was permanently abandoned on 29 May 2012 as an oil appraisal.
    Testing
    One drill stem test was performed from the interval 3181.5 - 3233 m in the Sleipner and Skagerrak Formations. The test produced at maximum 103 Sm3 oil/day through a 16/64" choke in the main flow. The gas measuring equipment did not work properly. In the succeeding sampling flow the well produced 84 Sm3 oil and 4159 Sm3 gas/day through a 12/64" choke. The GOR was 50 Sm3/Sm3.
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  • 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]
    1200.00
    3485.00
  • 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
    3187.0
    3241.5
    [m ]
    2
    3241.5
    3295.8
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    108.8
    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
    3181
    3233
    6.3
    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
    84
    4159
    50
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    MDT ECTS ECRD
    3185
    3397
    MRS SGT ACTS ECRD
    3150
    3485
    MWD - GR DIR
    112
    176
    MWD - GR RES DEN POR PWD DIR SON
    3008
    3485
    MWD - GR RES PWD DIR
    176
    1184
    MWD - GR RES SON DEN POR PWD DIR
    1184
    3008
    OBMI PPC MSIP PPC ACTS ECRD SGT
    1900
    3485
    RTS TLD APS HNGS ECS ACTS ERCD
    2950
    3485
  • 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
    173.0
    36
    173.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    13 3/8
    1178.0
    17 1/2
    1184.0
    1.70
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2998.0
    12 1/4
    3008.0
    1.95
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3485.0
    8 1/2
    3485.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    1141
    1.47
    37.0
    Enviromul
    1141
    1.47
    37.0
    Enviromul
    1230
    1.47
    37.0
    Enviromul
    2800
    1.47
    39.0
    Enviromul
    3008
    1.47
    42.0
    Enviromul
    3060
    1.47
    39.0
    Enviromul
    3186
    1.48
    37.0
    Enviromul
    3241
    1.47
    37.0
    Enviromul
    3485
    1.48
    40.0
    Enviromul