16/2-U-8

Other · Shallow gas · Plugged · Equinor Energy AS · Johan Sverdrup · PL 265

16/2-U-8 is a shallow gas wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Equinor Energy AS, entered Jan 15, 2026, to 425 m.

Discovery 16/2-6 Johan Sverdrup · On the map →

425: m total depth
113.6: m water depth
Jan 15, 2026: entered · completed Jan 16, 2026
—: at total depth
—: m of core
—: °C bottom-hole temperature

SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED JAN 16, 2028

On file for this wellbore

Nothing yet. The Directorate has no tops, samples, logs, or documents on file for this wellbore; material from a new well is released two years after completion.

Drilling

Drilling facility: COSLPromoter · Semisub steel
Drilling days: 2
Kelly bushing elevation: 25.1 m
Maximum inclination: —°
Drilling permit: 1104-G
Licensing round: NST2000
Plugged and abandoned: Jan 16, 2026
Core samples available: No
Cuttings samples available: No
Position · ED50: 58.88113° N, 2.48849° E

Around this wellbore

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About this data

Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sodir) FactPages, mirrored nightly and used under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). Depths are metres along the wellbore from the kelly bushing unless a row gives its own unit; older cores are filed in feet. A zero the Directorate files for an unmeasured pressure, density, or temperature is shown as a dash.

Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/norway/wells/10449, documented in the API reference.