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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.
    15/12-10 S
    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.
    RE-CLASS TO DEV
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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
    Field
    Name of the field the wellbore is related to.
    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.
    15/12-10
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    ST8802 SR951- INLINE 580 & CROSSLINE 948
    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.
    Saga Petroleum ASA
    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.
    860-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.
    34
    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,
    02.10.1996
    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.
    04.11.1996
    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.
    04.11.1998
    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.
    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.
    APPRAISAL
    Reclassified to wellbore
    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.
    LATE 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.
    INTRA HEATHER FM SS
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    23.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    84.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3550.0
    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).
    3042.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    37.3
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    130
    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° 4' 40.48'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 53' 25.56'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6438068.65
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    434555.46
    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.
    2285

  • Wellbore history
    General
    The well is positioned on the western flank of the northern segment of the Varg Field, on a horst mapped at Top Sleipner level. Thick Intra Heather sandstones present in the southern and eastern segments of Varg were expected also in the northern segment. Over the horst, Draupne/Heather shales were assumed eroded so that Intra Heather sandstones were present between BCU and Top Sleipner. These two horizons could be mapped seismically, but the extent of sandstones could not be mapped. The well was drilled to determine the extent and thickness of the Intra Heather sandstone reservoir over the northern segment of Varg and, if oil was encountered, to determine fluid characteristics and depth to the OWC.
    Operations and results
    Appraisal well 15/12-10 S was drilled from the S4 slot on the Varg subsea template using the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Bergen. It was spudded on 2 October 1996 and drilled deviated to TD at 3550 m in the Triassic Skagerrak Formation. The deviation started at 250 m, building angle to 35 deg at 960 m and was then kept between 28 deg and 38 deg down to TD. No significant problems were encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with seawater down to 207 m, with seawater/PAC/CMC from 207 m to 1396 m, and with Ancovert oil based mud from 1396 m to TD. No shallow gas was predicted and no shallow gas was found in the well.
    Down to Top Shetland, the well was within prognosis, and penetrated the expected lithology. Below this level, the Shetland limestone was thicker than expected, and Top Cromer Knoll and Base Cretaceous was penetrated considerably deeper than prognosed (55 and 58 metres, respectively). Below BCU, the well encountered Late Jurassic shales and siltstones, and only 13 metres TVD of poor quality Intra Heather Sandstone was penetrated at 3372 - 3388 m (2924 - 2937 m TVD MSL) in the lower part of the Late Jurassic section. This was considerably less than prognosed, and the poor reservoir quality seen in the well also proved a rapid facies variation between 15/12-6 S and -10 S, probably controlled by faulting. The Intra Heather Sandstone was oil bearing, but had poor reservoir characteristics. MDT fluid samples from the top of the unit were contaminated with oil from the oil-based drilling mud, but analyses showed that the oil was of the same type as the oil found in well 15/12-6 S. The Intra Heather Sandstone section was deeper than the anticipated OWC for this part of the field (2920 m TVD MSL), and the base of the interval represented an ODT, indicating that sandstones in this area contain oil down to a deeper level than previously assumed.
    Top Sleipner and Top Triassic were penetrated close to prognosis, and a core taken in the Triassic was in parts heavily tectonized. The borehole imager (UBI) indicated faulting at the top of the Intra Heather Sandstone, and in the Sleipner formation.
    One conventional core was cut from 3427 - 3448 m in the Triassic Skagerrak Formation. An MDT sampling run collected fluid in two sample chambers at 3372.15 m (2947.04 m TVD RKB).
    The well was re-classed to cuttings-injector 15/12-A-4 on 4. November 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]
    1400.00
    3550.00

  • 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
    3427.0
    3446.6
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    19.6
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • Core photos
    Core photos
    Core photo at depth: 3427-3432m
    Core photo at depth: 3432-3437m
    Core photo at depth: 3437-3442m
    Core photo at depth: 3442-3446m
    Core photo at depth:  
    3427-3432m
    3432-3437m
    3437-3442m
    3442-3446m

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    5.24

  • 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
    27.53

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    DSI NGT GPIT AMS
    1725
    3547
    MDT GR AMS
    3298
    3532
    MDT GR AMS
    3372
    3383
    MSCT GR
    3194
    3474
    MSCT GR
    3195
    3424
    MWD - GR RES DIR
    107
    3550
    PEX AIT AMS
    3164
    3553
    UBI NGT GPIT AMS
    3164
    3553
    VSP MULTILOCK
    1470
    3540

  • 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
    203.0
    36
    206.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1388.0
    16
    1396.0
    1.60
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    3154.0
    12 1/4
    3160.0
    1.53
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3550.0
    8 1/2
    3550.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    207
    1.20
    28.0
    WATER BASED
    285
    1.20
    28.0
    WATER BASED
    1396
    1.20
    28.0
    WATER BASED
    2018
    1.33
    31.0
    OIL BASED
    2933
    1.51
    35.0
    OIL BASED
    3135
    1.52
    33.0
    OIL BASED
    3160
    1.53
    35.0
    OIL BASED
    3427
    1.33
    24.0
    OIL BASED
    3448
    1.37
    23.0
    OIL BASED
    3550
    1.37
    29.0
    OIL BASED

  • Pressure plots
    Pressure plots
    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.
    Pressure plots
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.22