Give whole or part of name of wellbore, licence, field, company, discovery etc. E.g. Aker, Statfjord, 24/12, ABP21014. The main content is not searched.
Official name of wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
2/3-2
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.
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.
Norske Murphy Oil Company
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.
30-L
Drilling facility
Norwegian Offshore Directorate's name of the facility which the wellbore was drilled from.
Number of days from wellbore entry to wellbore completion.
19
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,
26.07.1969
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.
13.08.1969
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.
13.08.1971
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.
01.10.2004
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.
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.
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.
27.0
Water depth [m]
Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
58.0
Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
2297.0
Bottom hole temperature [°C]
Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells.
See discription.
76
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.
PALEOCENE
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.
VIDAR FM
Geodetic datum
Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
ED50
NS degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
56° 54' 53.7'' N
EW degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
3° 49' 2.28'' E
NS UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
6308353.44
EW UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
Well 2/3-2 is located on the Sørvestlandet High north of the Søgne Basin and south of the Åsta Graben. The well was drilled to determine if Oligocene - Miocene reservoirs were developed off the flanks of the 2/3-1 structure and if the hydrocarbon accumulations tested in the 2/3-1 well extended beyond the spill point of the structure. Total depth of the well was planned in Lower Oligocene.
The well is Reference Well for the Vade Formation.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 2/3-2 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Ocean Traveller on 26 July 1969 and drilled to TD at 2297 m in Paleocene sediments. The water depth at the location is 58 m. The surface hole was drilled to 299 m, to simulataneously run the 30 inch and 20 inch casings. Problems with stuck pipe occurred. High pump pressure and difficulty in washing past 265 m required pulling out of the hole again. It was found that two drill collars and the bit had backed off. A dive was made to determine if the fish was on the ocean floor. It could not be found. The hole was abandoned and repositioned 20 m due east of the original location, for re-spudding. After this no significant problems occurred during drilling. The 36" and 26" holes, down to 211 m were drilled with sea water and returns were to the sea floor. The rest of the well was drilled with a Q-Broxin/Caustic type mud. As in well 2/3-1 bridging caused problema during the logging operations. This was especially evident in the 17 1/2 inch hole, which had to be reamed and circulated. Still it turned out to be impossible to obtain an open hole GR/BHC-Sonic survey.
At 1795 m a sandy sequence, the Vade Formation, was encountered. It was described as two sandstone beds, greenish gray, very fine grained, poorly consolidated, porous and permeable. The sandstone beds were separated by about 15 m of dark brown shale with thin streaks of dolomitic limestone. Below the Vade sand only thin sand beds could be seen between 1859 m and 1935 m, and between 2243 m and 2274 m (Fiskebanken Formation). Gas shows in the form of elevated methane readings were described in clays and thin sandstone beds from 945 m down to 1335 m. The shows most likely originated from in-situ shales. Otherwise no shows were recorded in the well. No full cores were cut and no fluid samples taken in the well.
The well was permanently abandoned as a dry appraisal well on 13 August 1969.
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