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35/8-5 S

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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.
    35/8-5 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
    Well name
    Official name of the parent well for the wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    35/8-5
    Seismic location
    Position of spud location on seismic survey lines. SP: shotpoint.
    BPN 9301M00 -inline 1984
    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.
    Norsk Hydro Produksjon 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.
    1063-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.
    50
    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,
    01.06.2003
    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.
    20.07.2003
    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.
    20.07.2005
    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.
    01.04.2010
    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.
    SHOWS
    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.
    29.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    369.0
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    4000.0
    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).
    3831.8
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    37.1
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    138
    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.
    MIDDLE JURASSIC
    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.
    RANNOCH FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    61° 22' 40.5'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    3° 39' 13.22'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6805219.70
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    534934.95
    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.
    4761

  • Wellbore history
    General
    Well 35/8-5 S was drilled on a location ca 15 km west of the Gjøa Field on the western margin of the Måløy Slope in the northern North Sea. The main objective was to test the presence and type of hydrocarbons in Oxfordian turbidites in the J10 Prospect. A secondary objective of the well was to test the hydrocarbon potential of the Brent Group Sandstones. The well was targeted in the W-segment of the prospect, close to the eastern boundary fault, in order to enable a possible sidetrack towards east and into the C-segment. To meet these criteria, the well was designed as a deviation well to follow the dip of the eastern boundary fault plane of the W-segment in a proper distance from the fault. Sidetracking was only to be performed in case of discovery in either the primary or the secondary target.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 35/8-5 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Delta on June 1 2003 and drilled to TD at 4000 m (3831.8 m TVD) in the Middle Jurassic Rannoch Formation. It was discovered after spud that the spud position of the well was placed 105 m east of the planned spud location. The deviation was adjusted during drilling and the reservoir was penetrated within the planned target tolerance. The resulting well path was vertical down to 2315 m, and then deviated with variable inclination down to ca 3300 m, then keeping a fairly constant inclination of 36 deg throughout the last 700 m to TD. A drilling hazard was given due to possible water flow from over-pressured sand interval in the Skade Formation at 673.5 - 794 m. This sand was considerably thicker than prognosed. There was no overpressure in the interval, but two thinner sands above, at 570 m and 590 m, where water flow occurred, were over-pressured. As a result, the 20" casing was set at 550 m instead of at 1100 m as planned for, and this in turn led to a revision of the casing programme in general. As no commercial discovery was made, no sidetrack of the well into the C-segment was performed and the wire line logging programme was reduced by not including the CMR, MSCT, OBMI-DSI and VSP logs in the 8 1/2" section. There is a large difference (6.5 - 9 m) between drillers (LWD) depth and logger's depth in this well. The LWD depth is used as reference for lithostratigraphic tops. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 412 m, with NaCl Polymer mud from 412 m to 682 m, with KCl mud from 682 m to 1331 m, and with Versavert oil based mud from 1331 m to TD.
    Several sand units were penetrated above the Jurassic target reservoirs. Within the Hordaland Group the Skade Formation (673.5 - 845 m), the Grid Formation (845 - 1091 m), and the Frigg Formation (1091 - 1338 m) were encountered. Within the Rogaland Group the Ty sand (1658 -1716.5 m) was encountered. The prognosed Oxfordian reservoir (Intra Heather Formation Sandstone) was encountered at 3326 m, but the reservoir quality was much poorer than expected. An about 20 m thick Callovian intra-Heather Formation turbidite sequence was encountered at 3570 m. This was not prognosed. The Brent Group reservoir was found as prognosed with the better reservoir sands found in the Tarbert (3830 - 3882 m) and Etive (3916 - 3964 m) Formations. The well did not prove any commercial hydrocarbons. The Oxfordian sandstone seemed to be oil filled, but due to tight reservoir it was not considered a discovery. The Brent Group reservoir zones were proven water filled with a clear water gradient from pressure data. Good oil shows were obtained in both the Oxfordian sandstone and in the Tarbert Formation.
    There were taken 6 conventional cores, 4 in the Oxfordian sandstone and 2 in the Brent Group sandstone. Cores of the Oxfordian reservoir showed very poor reservoir quality, according to both grain size and cementation. No wire line fluid samples were taken.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 20 July 2003 as a dry well.
    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]
    700.00
    3999.00

  • 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
    3381.0
    3382.5
    [m ]
    2
    3383.5
    3401.6
    [m ]
    3
    3401.6
    3415.0
    [m ]
    4
    3415.5
    3443.3
    [m ]
    5
    3845.0
    3856.3
    [m ]
    6
    3856.3
    3883.5
    [m ]
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Total core sample length [m]
    99.2
    Cores at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cores available for sampling?
    YES

  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Composite logs
    Composite logs
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.52

  • Geochemical information
    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    2.71

  • 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
    2.15
    .PDF
    3.65
    .pdf
    2.42

  • Logs
    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    IPLT MDT
    3258
    4000
    IPLT MDT
    3258
    3986
    LWD - GR RES DIR SON DEN NEU
    3265
    4000
    MWD - DIR
    398
    458
    MWD - GR RES DIR PRES
    458
    1326
    MWD - GR RES DIR PRES SON
    1326
    3265

  • 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
    458.0
    36
    458.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    550.0
    26
    555.0
    1.25
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    1320.0
    17
    1326.0
    1.58
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    3258.0
    12 1/4
    3265.0
    2.05
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    4000.0
    8 1/2
    4000.0
    1.80
    LOT

  • Drilling mud
    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    412
    1.25
    water based
    458
    1.25
    water based
    629
    1.10
    11.0
    water based
    682
    1.30
    water based
    946
    1.11
    14.0
    water based
    1285
    1.11
    17.0
    water based
    1331
    1.25
    26.0
    water based
    2773
    1.20
    23.0
    oil based
    2962
    1.25
    24.0
    oil based
    3265
    1.27
    26.0
    oil based
    3443
    1.50
    38.0
    oil based
    3856
    1.64
    49.0
    oil based
    3883
    1.65
    51.0
    oil based
    4000
    1.64
    47.0
    oil based

  • Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Thin sections at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Depth
    Unit
    3420.75
    [m ]
    3419.42
    [m ]
    3410.78
    [m ]
    3410.46
    [m ]
    3409.76
    [m ]
    3395.72
    [m ]
    3394.66
    [m ]

  • Pressure plots
    Pressure plots
    The pore pressure data is sourced from well logs if no other source is specified. In some wells where pore pressure logs do not exist, information from Drill stem tests and kicks have been used. The data has been reported to the NPD, and further processed and quality controlled by IHS Markit.
    Pressure plots
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    pdf
    0.22