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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.
    15/12-18 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).
    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
    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.
    15/12-18
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    2004: inline 1166 & crossline 2860
    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.
    Det norske oljeselskap ASA (old)
    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.
    1150-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.
    64
    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,
    05.09.2007
    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.
    07.11.2007
    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.
    07.11.2009
    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.
    07.11.2009
    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.
    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.
    YES
    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.
    PALEOCENE
    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.
    TY FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    43.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    90.5
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3520.0
    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).
    3310.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    36
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    86
    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.
    58° 12' 53.07'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 46' 40.43'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6453416.52
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    428194.30
    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.
    5607

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 15/12-18 S is located between the Sleipner Øst and Varg fields in the North Sea. The well was designed to test three prospects in different stratigraphic intervals, referred to as Grid (Eocene), Storskrymten (Paleocene) and Grytkollen (Triassic Hugin/Skagerrak Formation). The Storskrymten reservoir was the primary objective of the three. If hydrocarbons were discovered bore, a sidetrack would be evaluated to prove the vertical extension of the column. All prospects were based on up doming effects along the main migration routes from the Maureen area.
    Operations and results
    Well 15/12-18 S was spudded with the jack-up installation Mærsk Giant on 5 September 2007 and drilled to TD at 3520 m (3310 m TVD) in the Late Permian Zechstein Group. It was drilled vertical down to 1700 m, building angle up to ca 35 deg at ca 2550 m. The deviation was kept within 36 to 24 deg for the remaining well path down to TD. The drilling operation was executed with several down-hole problems. Major delays were due to logging problems and lost circulation in the Cretaceous. The well was drilled with seawater down to 474 m, with KCl/polymer mud from 474 m to 1173 m, with mineral oil -based mud (Carbo-Sea) from 1173 m to 2773 m, and with Enviromul oil based mud from 2773 m to TD.
    Twenty-two m of Grid sandstones were found water bearing. The Paleocene Ty Formation at 2670 m (2589 m TVD) was found hydrocarbon bearing. The OWC was from pressure data set to 2687.5 m (2602.5 m TVD). From the resistivity logs, however, the OWC would be set at 2691 m (2605.8 m TVD). This gives a vertical oil column of 16.8 m. Shows were recorded down to 2722 m. After evaluation of the Ty Formation reservoir, drilling continued into Hugin Formation at 3420 m (3219 m TVD), where 9 m of sandstone was encountered, but with no hydrocarbons. Shows were recorded on limestone at 2960 to 2970 m, in marl/claystone in the interval 3053 to 3175 m, and in shales of the Draupne and Heather Formations from 3270 to 3320 m.
    No core was cut. Oil was sampled during the MDT runs at depths of 2671.9 m and 2683.6 m. Water was sampled at 2705 m. A mini-DST was attempted but aborted due to packer problems.
    The well was completed on 7 November 2007 as an oil discovery. A side track (15/12-18 A) was initiated to appraise the discovery.
    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]
    1180.00
    3520.00

  • Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Palynological slides at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Sample depth
    Depth unit
    Sample type
    Laboratory
    2239.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2254.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2263.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2275.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2290.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2400.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2420.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2440.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2450.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2460.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2470.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2490.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2530.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    2645.0
    [m]
    SWC
    APT
    2650.0
    [m]
    SWC
    APT
    2655.0
    [m]
    SWC
    APT
    2664.0
    [m]
    SWC
    APT
    2667.0
    [m]
    SWC
    APT
    2699.0
    [m]
    SWC
    APT
    2700.0
    [m]
    SWC
    APT
    3330.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3350.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3370.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3390.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3410.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3428.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3434.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3437.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3449.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3458.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3467.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3473.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3476.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3503.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT
    3512.0
    [m]
    DC
    APT

  • Oil samples at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Oil samples at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Test type
    Bottle number
    Top depth
    MD [m]
    Bottom depth
    MD [m]
    Fluid type
    Test time
    Samples available
    MDT
    0.00
    2683.60
    OIL
    NO

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    MDT GR CAL
    2258
    2720
    MDT MINI-DST GR
    2672
    0
    MINI-DST GR SAMPLE-QP
    2683
    2705
    MSCT GR
    2645
    2722
    MWD LWD - AGR EWR DIR PWD
    476
    1173
    MWD LWD - AGR EWR DIR PWD CTN AL
    1173
    3175
    MWD LWD - DIR
    25
    239
    MWD LWD - DWD
    239
    476
    MWD LWD - EWR DGR PWD DIR BAT
    3175
    3520
    MWD LWD - GR EWR DIR PWD
    239
    476

  • 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
    230.0
    36
    232.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    469.0
    24
    474.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1168.0
    17 1/2
    1173.0
    2.04
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2770.0
    12 1/4
    2773.0
    0.00
    LOT
    LINER
    7
    3175.0
    8 1/2
    3175.0
    1.58
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3520.0
    6
    3520.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    158
    1.05
    110.0
    WATER BASED
    239
    1.20
    WATER BASED
    474
    1.20
    17.0
    WATER BASED
    476
    1.20
    WATER BASED
    702
    1.12
    WATER BASED