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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.
    17/3-1
    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
    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
    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.
    17/3-1
    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.
    Elf Petroleum Norge AS
    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.
    815-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.
    53
    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,
    29.06.1995
    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.
    20.08.1995
    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.
    20.08.1997
    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.
    24.09.2002
    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
    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
    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.
    MIDDLE 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.
    SANDNES FM
    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.
    273.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    2852.0
    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).
    2852.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    3.19
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    98
    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.
    PRE-DEVONIAN
    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.
    BASEMENT
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    58° 55' 2.5'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    3° 48' 21.33'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6531280.15
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    546414.75
    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.
    2576

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Block 17/3 is situated approximately in the center of a broad, elongated Triassic rift basin composed of the Stord and Egersund basins. The well is located on a well-defined horst structure (Bark Prospect) in the northern part of the block, in an almost unexplored area in the southern part of the Stord Basin. Due to the "wildcat" nature of the well there were many unknowns and "worst case scenarios" had to be planned for. The well was designed for two objectives with different pressure regimes: The primary objective was the Late Jurassic Sandnes Formation at 1.20 sg. The Permian Rotliegendes Group at 1.55 sg was a secondary objective. This necessitated an expensive deep 13 3/8" casing (2312 m) to ensure that the 2 objectives could be properly evaluated and that the well could be completed in the 8 1/2" section. The expected hydrocarbon phase was oil. The prognosed TD of the well was 3300 m RKB, 309 m below the supposed Top Rotliegendes. This was in order to reach the highly dipping markers of assumed Paleoz
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 17/3-1 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation "Wildcat Explorer" on 29 June 1995 and drilled to a total depth of 2852.15 m in metamorphic basement rock, dated 410 My. The well was drilled with seawater down to 949 m and with water based gypsum mud from 949 m to TD. The well came in under budget and almost 14 days ahead of schedule. A major contributing factor to the latter was the shallower than expected TD, 2852 m (basement) as opposed to 3300 m, due to the Permian section being non-existent. The primary objective Sandnes Formation was encountered at 2387 - 2409 m, about 50 m shallower than prognosed, with a hydrostatic pore pressure (1.05 sg emw from RFT and MDT) and only ~2 m of gas was found at the top of the reservoir. The Permian series were not present, as the Triassic Smith Bank Formation was directly deposited on metamorphic basement. The secondary objective, the Rotliegendes Group, was never encountered due to the missing Permian series. The well was permanently plugged and abandoned on 22 August 1995 as a gas 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]
    955.00
    2845.00

  • 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
    2388.0
    2390.0
    [m ]
    2
    2391.0
    2400.2
    [m ]
    3
    2400.2
    2417.9
    [m ]
    4
    2849.0
    2852.2
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    32.0
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • Core photos
    Core photos
    Core photo at depth: 2388-2390m
    Core photo at depth: 2391-2396m
    Core photo at depth: 2396-2400m
    Core photo at depth: 2400-2405m
    Core photo at depth: 2405-2410m
    2388-2390m
    2391-2396m
    2396-2400m
    2400-2405m
    2405-2410m
    Core photo at depth: 2410-2415m
    Core photo at depth: 2415-2418m
    Core photo at depth: 2849-2852m
    Core photo at depth:  
    Core photo at depth:  
    2410-2415m
    2415-2418m
    2849-2852m

  • 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
    SURF.COND.
    30
    443.0
    36
    445.0
    0.00
    LOT
    CONDUCTOR
    20
    943.0
    26
    949.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    2312.0
    17 1/2
    2319.0
    0.00
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    2852.0
    12 1/4
    2852.0
    1.35
    LOT

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    AMS FMS GR
    2315
    2849
    CST GR
    2324
    2840
    DIL AMS MSF BHC GR
    2315
    2846
    LDL AMS BHC GR
    942
    2310
    LDL CNL AMS NGT GR
    2315
    2849
    MDT GR
    2388
    2438
    MGR MEM DIR
    298
    2849
    RFT GR
    2389
    2438
    VSP
    730
    2840

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Composite logs
    Composite logs
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.40

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    1.22
    pdf
    1.97
    pdf
    1.04

  • 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
    44.94

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    330
    1.03
    WATER BASED
    443
    1.03
    WATER BASED
    445
    1.03
    WATER BASED
    492
    1.37
    WATER BASED
    500
    1.37
    WATER BASED
    627
    1.37
    WATER BASED
    847
    1.03
    WATER BASED
    943
    1.26
    19.0
    WATER BASED
    949
    1.03
    WATER BASED
    1133
    1.35
    22.0
    WATER BASED
    1247
    1.35
    23.0
    WATER BASED
    1315
    1.35
    27.0
    WATER BASED
    1538
    1.35
    27.0
    WATER BASED
    1695
    1.35
    26.0
    WATER BASED
    1732
    1.35
    24.0
    WATER BASED
    1836
    1.35
    25.0
    WATER BASED
    1942
    1.35
    27.0
    WATER BASED
    1976
    1.35
    27.0
    WATER BASED
    2009
    1.35
    24.0
    WATER BASED
    2111
    1.35
    26.0
    WATER BASED
    2161
    1.35
    27.0
    WATER BASED
    2233
    1.35
    26.0
    WATER BASED
    2312
    1.35
    25.0
    WATER BASED
    2318
    1.35
    26.0
    WATER BASED
    2319
    1.35
    28.0
    WATER BASED
    2390
    1.35
    24.0
    WATER BASED
    2400
    1.35
    21.0
    WATER BASED
    2427
    1.35
    23.0
    WATER BASED
    2483
    1.35
    32.0
    WATER BASED
    2494
    1.35
    28.0
    WATER BASED
    2591
    1.35
    24.0
    WATER BASED
    2633
    1.35
    25.0
    WATER BASED
    2691
    1.35
    25.0
    WATER BASED
    2744
    1.35
    23.0
    WATER BASED
    2840
    1.35
    28.0
    WATER BASED
    2846
    1.35
    27.0
    WATER BASED
    2849
    1.35
    24.0
    WATER BASED
    2850
    1.35
    23.0
    WATER BASED
    2852
    1.35
    23.0
    WATER BASED