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.
7220/11-3 A
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.
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.
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.
Lundin Norway 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.
1598-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.
27
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,
02.09.2015
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.
29.09.2015
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.
29.09.2017
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.
29.09.2017
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.
OIL/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.
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.
LATE TRIASSIC
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.
KLAPPMYSS 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.
EARLY TRIASSIC
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.
NO FORMAL NAME
Kelly bushing elevation [m]
Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
30.0
Water depth [m]
Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
397.0
Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
2135.0
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).
1992.0
Maximum inclination [°]
Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
41.3
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.
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.
ØRN FM
Geodetic datum
Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
ED50
NS degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
72° 1' 12.62'' N
EW degrees
Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
20° 31' 41.23'' E
NS UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
8000137.25
EW UTM [m]
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
Well 7220/11-3 A is a geological sidetrack to well 7220/11-3, which confirmed oil and gas in Triassic conglomerates and Permian carbonates in a central position on the Alta discovery. The Alta structure lie on the southern Loppa High in the Barents Sea. Well 7220/11-3 did not penetrated to the oil-water contact. The primary objective of the sidetrack was to prove the presence and thickness of the Early Triassic conglomerates ca 400 m to the east of the main wellbore and to confirm hydrocarbon columns and fluid contacts similar to those established in the 7220/11-1 discovery well.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 7220/11-3 A was kicked off from 1105 m in the 7220/11-3 main bore on 2 September 2015. It was drilled with the semi-submersible installation Island Innovator to 1240 m where it was aborted due to steering problems. The wellbore was plugged back and successfully sidetracked. It was drilled with no significant further issues to a total depth of 2135 m (1991.8 m TVD) in Permian carbonates of the Ørn Formation. The well was drilled with AquaDrill mud from kick-off to TD.
The geological sidetrack proved a total hydrocarbon column height of 74 m comprising 30 m of gas over 44 m of oil. The column extended from 2013 m (1880 m TVD) in the upper Klappmyss Formation down to a free-water level estimated to be at 2094 m (1954 m TVD) in Early Triassic conglomerates. The gas-oil contact was established at 2046 m (1910 m TVD). The pressures and gradients were found to be comparable with those established in the 7220/11-3 main well and in the 7220/11-1 discovery well. Numerous oil shows were described in siltstones and sandstones below 1100 m in the Snadd and Kobbe formations. Shows were described also below the hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir all through down to TD.
Two cores were cut from 2015.0 to 2094.5 m with 100% recovery. MDT fluid samples were taken at 2121.2 m (water), 2064 m (oil), and 2013.4 m (gas).
Due to concerns of possible severe losses occurring while the reservoir was exposed, drilling was terminated prior to penetrating the lowermost Ørn Formation carbonates, which were believed to pose the highest risk of losses. The wellbore was suspended on 29 September 2015 after installing a 7" liner. Further drilling and testing would be done in a later re-entry. The well is classified as an oil and gas appraisal well.
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