NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 105
31/6-5
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil/gas · Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s · Troll · PL 085
31/6-5 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s, entered Mar 16, 1984, to 2,082 m in the Drake Fm.
Discovery 31/6-1 (Troll Øst) · On the map →
- 2,082
- m total depth · 2,028 m vertical
- 304
- m water depth
- Mar 16, 1984
- entered · completed May 21, 1984
- Drake Fm
- at total depth · Early Jurassic
- 246.2
- m of core in 10 cores
- 61
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED MAY 21, 1986
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- DEEPSEA BERGEN decom · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 67
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 23 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.5°
- Drilling permit
- 409-L
- Licensing round
- Awarded additionally to round 7
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 60.61856° N, 3.80583° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Sognefjord Fm · Late Jurassic
Well history
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General
Well 31/6-5 was drilled in the southern part of the Troll East gas province, 30 m from well 31/6-4, which was junked for technical reasons. The main purpose was to appraise and test possible oil and gas accumulations in sandstones of Late to Middle Jurassic age, and to give further information about lateral facies changes within the reservoir sandstones.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 31/6-5 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Bergen on 5 March 1984 and drilled to TD at 2082 m in the Early Jurassic Drake Formation. In the 26" hole lost circulation occurred at 653 m, two cement plugs were set. Several wiper trips were taken due to tight hole. After setting of the 20" casing, the BOP had to be repaired due to leaking during pressure testing. A drilling break occurred at 1476 m in the 12 1/4" hole. The well was drilled with the spud mud from the previous hole (31/6-4) treated with CMC-EHV down to 389 m, with seawater/gel mud from 389 m to 663 m, with KCl/polymer mud from 663 m to 1720 m, and with seawater/gel/CMC mud from 1720 m to TD.
Sandstone of Late to Middle Jurassic age (Sognefjord Formation) was encountered at 1518 m with a 52 m gas column and a 4 m oil column. The gas/oil contact was at 1570 m and the oil/water contact at 1574 m. Oil shows were recorded on sidewall cores on top Fensfjord Formation sandstone from 1722 m to 1726 m and on a sandstone SWC from 2010 m in the Ness Formation. Ten cores were cut from 1470 m to 1721 m in the Late to Middle Jurassic sequence (Heather Formation to Fensfjord Formation). One FMT fluid sample was taken in the oil zone 1571.5 m. Geochemical analyses showed the oil to be biodegraded.
The well was permanently abandoned on 16 March 1984 as a gas and oil appraisal.
Testing
The Sognefjord Formation was tested through gravel pack from the interval 1558 m to 1568 m. The first test gave a non-representative
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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.
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