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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.
    1/6-3
    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
    Multilateral
    Indicator telling if the parent well is multilateral, meaning it has more than one branch radiating from the main borehole. Example of legal values: YES, NO. See also Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    NO
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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.
    1/6-3
    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.
    A/S Norske Shell
    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.
    105-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.
    143
    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,
    12.04.1974
    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.
    11.09.1974
    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.
    11.09.1976
    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.
    02.04.2007
    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
    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.
    GAS/CONDENSATE
    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.
    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.
    EKOFISK 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 CRETACEOUS
    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.
    TOR FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    34.0
    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).
    3343.0
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    140
    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 CRETACEOUS
    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.
    TOR FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    56° 38' 36.4'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    2° 55' 49.7'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6277839.03
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    495735.82
    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.
    241

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 1/6-3 is located on the Albuskjell Field in the southern Norwegian North Sea. The primary objective was appraisal of reservoir development in the western part of the Albuskjell field. A Danian - Maastrichtian gas condensate field had previously been confirmed by two wells (A/S Norske Shell l/6-l and Phillips 2/4-9) drilled farther east along the WNW - ESE trending structure. Secondary objectives were to investigate Danian Chalk prospect and possible deeper prospects.
    Operations and results
    Appraisal well 1/6-3 was spudded with the jack-up installation Zapata Nordic on 12 April 1974. Three sidetracks had finally to be drilled, of which the second and deepest reached 3343 m in the Late Cretaceous Tor Formation. The first sidetrack was kicked off at 314 m after unsuccessful fishing (lost hole opener). The second sidetrack was kicked off at 3022 m when it was realised that a core point had been missed so that a Danian porous zone and 37 m of Maastrichtian had not been cored. Lost circulation and stuck pipe led to the third side track, which was kicked off at 2995 m. Further lost circulation problems and the discovery that there was a break in the casing at 3140 m finally led to abandonment of the well without investigating the deeper prospects. The well was drilled with seawater down to 417 m, with shale-trol/lignosulphonate from 417 m to 1221 m, with shale-trol/lignosulphonate and lime from 1221 m to 2500 m, and with lignosulphonate and lime from 2500 m to TD. A diesel/pipe lax pill was spotted at 314 m.
    As prognosed, gas was encountered both in the Danian and Late Maastrichtian Chalk. Hydrocarbons were present from Top Ekofisk at 3110 m down to an OWC at 3289.7 m in the Tor Formation. The net thicknesses were respectively 91 and 45 m. The great thickness of the Danian reservoir was in contrast to the findings from wells l/6-l and 2/4-9, where only a thin hydrocarbon-bearing zone was present in an otherwise tight Danian.
    Eleven conventional cores were cut over the interval 3123.3 to 3343.0 m. Of these, the first core was cut from 3123.3 to 3141.5 m in the first sidetrack, cores 2 to 9 were cut from 3162.3 to 3343 m in the second sidetrack, and cores 10 and 11 were cut from 3136.4 to 3163.8 m in the third sidetrack. No fluid samples were taken on wire line.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 11 September 1974 as a gas/condensate appraisal.
    Testing
    Two thin zones in the Maastrichtian chalk (Tor Formation) were Drill Stem Tested to obtain water samples. DST 1 tested the interval 3298 to 3299.5 m and started to produce gas, which had flown down the 7" / 8 l/2" annulus in preference to water from the formation opposite the perforations. The well was killed immediately for safety reasons. DST 2 was then attempted from the interval 3302.5 to 3304 m after a cement squeeze to shut of the annulus gas stream. The Formation proved tight and only gas cut mud was obtained. No water sample was obtained.
    The hydrocarbon bearing zones were Production Tested in two intervals: PT 1 from 3227.8 to 3265.9 m in the Maastrichtian chalk (Tor Formation) and PT 2 from 3125.7 to 3166.9 m in the Danian chalk (Ekofisk Formation). PT 1 produced after acid treatment on a 28/64" choke 541000 Sm3 gas and 409 Sm3 oil /day The GOR was 1325 Sm3/Sm3, the oil gravity was 47 deg API, and the gas gravity was 0.67 (air = 1). Maximum reservoir temperature (from build up period between 1.and 2. flow period) was 137.2 deg C. Unfortunately, no successful test was made of the Danian reservoir in Test 2, from the interval 3125.7 to 3166.9 m. This was due to plugging by formation and lost circulation material from the tested interval. In this zone, the Danian consisted of very friable, fractured chalk. The well slugged badly and gave unstable measurements. Average rates were 325000 Sm3 gas and 318Sm3 oil /day, with similar fluid characteristics as in Test 1.

  • 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]
    405.38
    3322.32

  • 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
    10247.0
    10307.0
    [ft ]
    2
    10357.0
    10435.0
    [ft ]
    3
    10435.0
    10495.0
    [ft ]
    4
    10495.0
    10581.0
    [ft ]
    5
    10581.0
    10665.0
    [ft ]
    6
    10665.0
    10709.0
    [ft ]
    7
    10709.0
    10793.0
    [ft ]
    8
    10793.0
    10883.0
    [ft ]
    9
    10883.0
    10968.0
    [ft ]
    10
    10290.0
    10332.0
    [ft ]
    11
    10336.0
    10373.0
    [ft ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    228.6
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • 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
    DST
    TEST1
    3228.00
    3266.00
    20.07.1974 - 00:00
    YES
    DST
    TEST1,1
    0.00
    0.00
    23.07.1974 - 00:00
    YES

  • 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
    175.0
    36
    175.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    417.0
    26
    425.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1220.0
    17 1/2
    1230.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    2446.0
    12 1/4
    2452.0
    0.00
    LOT
    LINER
    7
    3320.0
    8 1/2
    3325.0
    0.00
    LOT

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    BHC
    418
    1229
    BHC-C
    1221
    3341
    CBL
    2134
    3300
    CCL
    3271
    3296
    CDM
    1221
    3192
    FDC CNL
    2449
    3342
    FDC CNL
    2896
    3193
    GR
    100
    418
    IES
    417
    3341
    TEMP
    640
    1829
    TEMP
    2316
    3277
    VELOCITY
    91
    3324

  • Lithostratigraphy
    Lithostratigraphy
    Top depth [mMD RKB]
    Lithostrat. unit
    103
    1792
    2907
    2907
    2916
    2947
    3110
    3110
    3229

  • 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
    1.64
    pdf
    3.27

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    178
    1.04
    seawater
    355
    1.20
    viscous mud
    1230
    1.43
    waterbased
    2452
    1.73
    waterbased
    3062
    1.79
    waterbased
    3261
    1.74
    waterbased
    3325
    1.75
    waterbased