NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 1026
31/4-9
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS · Brage · PL 055
31/4-9 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS, entered Jan 23, 1987, to 2,480 m in the Drake Fm.
Discovery 31/4-3 Brage · On the map →
- 2,480
- m total depth · 2,480 m vertical
- 147
- m water depth
- Jan 23, 1987
- entered · completed Mar 7, 1987
- Drake Fm
- at total depth · Early Jurassic
- 116.2
- m of core in 10 cores
- 100
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED MAR 7, 1989
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- POLAR PIONEER · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 44
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 23 m
- Maximum inclination
- 2.4000001°
- Drilling permit
- 534-L
- Licensing round
- 4
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 60.53397° N, 3.09081° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Fensfjord Fm · Middle Jurassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 31/4-9 was drilled as an appraisal well on the Brage Field on the Bjørgvin Arch in the North Sea. The main objective was to establish the OWC and confirm reservoir trends, hydrocarbon column and reserve potential in the east flank of the structure. TD was prognosed at 2500 m, 70 m into the Dunlin Group.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 31/4-9 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Polar Pioneer on 23 January 1987 and drilled to TD at 2480 m in the Early Jurassic Drake Formation. No significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 974 m, with KCl/polymer mud from 974 m to 2027 m, and with NaCl/CaCO3/polymer mud from 2027 m to TD.
The Fensfjord reservoir came in at 2168.5 m and consisted mainly of fine to medium grained sandstones grading into and interbedded with siltstones. The Fensfjord Formation was oil bearing down to the oil-water contact at 2172 m. The Brent sandstone was found to be water bearing. Oil shows were described in the cored sections from 2103.5 m in the Draupne Formation down to 2222 m in the Fensfjord Formation.
An attempt to take two cores in the Tertiary claystones failed. Eight cores were cut with good recovery in the interval 2103 to 2222 m in the Heather and Fensfjord formations. RFT oil samples were taken at 2171.5 m topmost in the Fensfjord Formation
The well was permanently abandoned on 7 March 1987 as an oil appraisal well.
Testing
Two drill stem tests were performed
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