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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.
    8/9-1
    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.
    8/9-1
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    LINE C8-9-1 SP.44
    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.
    145-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.
    51
    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,
    22.12.1975
    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.
    10.02.1976
    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.
    10.02.1978
    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.
    24.09.2004
    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).
    2376.0
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    51
    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 PERMIAN
    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.
    ZECHSTEIN GP
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    57° 26' 27.28'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    3° 51' 3.48'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6366931.10
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    551083.27
    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.
    303

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 8/9-1 is located in the Åsta Graben. It was designed to test a salt structure in the central part of the Norwegian-Danish basin. The primary objective was to penetrate Basal Jurassic unconformity sands in a crestal position of the closure. The sands were estimated to have an approximate gross thickness of 60 m and were expected to be Late Jurassic in age.
    The well is Reference Well for the Fiskebank Formation.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 8/9-1 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Ocean Viking on 22 December 1975 and drilled to TD at 2376 m in the Late Permian Zechstein salt. The well was drilled with salt gel down to 411 m and with a lignosulphonate / gypsum mud from 411 m to TD.
    The well penetrated fine-grained silty sandstone very rich in glauconite in the interval 1316 m to 1376 m in Paleocene. Net sand for the interval was 60 m and porosities derived from the density log and corrected for clay effects were in the range 16 % to 24 %. In the interval 2124 m to 2149 m in the Late Jurassic a series of interbedded claystones, siltstones and sandstones were penetrated. The only true sandstone interval here existed between 2147 m and 2149 m where porosities ranged from 7 % to 14% calculated from density - neutron cross plot. All other low GR and permeable intervals in the Late Jurassic section indicated porosities substantially less than this and corresponding sidewall cores showed tight siltstones. In the Middle Jurassic the interval 2168.7 m to 2222.6 m was found to contain a sequence of predominantly interbedded sandstones, siltstones, and claystones with occasional thin carbonaceous beds. The caliper indicated a net sand of approximately 25 m out of a gross interval of 54 m. The porosities in this interval were exceedingly variable from one sandstone unit to the next and ranged from 5 % to 26 %. The sands with the highest porosities occurred near the top of the section between 2171 m and 2175 m. The Zechstein Group was encountered at 2247 m. A thin sand was present overlying the Zechstein Group. This sand was fine-grained grading to siltstone being poorly sorted with some medium sized grains. It was light grey and well cemented with a poor visible porosity.
    Hydrocarbons in commercial quantities were not encountered in this well. The only indications were found as gas shows in Miocene-Oligocene limestones. While drilling, the total gas detector showed fairly high contents of methane, in one case measured to more than 20%. These limestones are thought to be slightly overpressured and fractured but occur only as thin 30 cm to 60 cm beds in the 8/9-1 well. No shows were encountered in the Jurassic sandstones, which was the primary objective. A bright spot just east of the well indicated possible gas accumulations in Middle Tertiary sands. The corresponding sand in this well was penetrated at 998 m without any significant increase in background gas.
    No conventional core was cut and no fluid sample was taken in the well
    The well was permanently abandoned as a dry hole on 10 February 1976.
    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]
    225.55
    2374.33

  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    2020.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROSTR
    2040.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS
    2060.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS
    2100.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS
    2120.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS
    2140.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS
    2180.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS
    2200.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS
    2220.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS
    2260.0
    [m]
    DC
    PETROS

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Composite logs
    Composite logs
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.29

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.66
    pdf
    0.82

  • 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
    4.60

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    BGT
    166
    410
    DLL SP GR
    980
    2254
    FDC CNL CAL GR
    944
    2244
    GR
    93
    410
    HDT
    991
    2245
    ISF
    402
    1007
    ISF SONIC SP GR
    929
    2308
    SONIC GR
    402
    1007

  • 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
    166.0
    36
    166.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    400.0
    26
    411.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    991.0
    17 1/2
    1005.0
    0.00
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2375.0
    12 1/4
    2375.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    410
    1.13
    45.0
    seawater
    1004
    1.25
    39.0
    seawater
    1391
    1.35
    49.0
    seawater
    1820
    1.37
    50.0
    seawater
    2211
    1.37
    52.0
    seawater
    2375
    1.40
    51.0
    seawater