NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 133
6407/9-1
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil · A/S Norske Shell · Draugen · PL 093
6407/9-1 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by A/S Norske Shell, entered Jun 26, 1984, to 2,500 m in the Red Beds (informal).
Discovery 6407/9-1 Draugen · On the map →
- 2,500
- m total depth · 2,500 m vertical
- 248
- m water depth
- Jun 26, 1984
- entered · completed Sep 7, 1984
- Red Beds (informal)
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- 48.5
- m of core in 5 cores
- 99
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED SEP 7, 1986
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- BORGNY DOLPHIN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 74
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 2°
- Drilling permit
- 422-L
- Licensing round
- 8
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 64.36559° N, 7.78913° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Rogn Fm · Late Jurassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Wildcat well 6407/9-1 was drilled in the Froan Basin offshore Mid Norway. The primary objective of the well was evaluation of possible reservoirs of Early to Middle Jurassic age. Secondary objectives were evaluation of deeper reservoirs of Early Jurassic to Upper Triassic age.
The well is Type Well for the Rogn Formation. It is Reference well for the Viking Group and Spekk Formation
Operations and results
Wildcat well 6407/9-1 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Borgny Dolphin on 26 June 1984 and drilled to TD at 2500 m in the Late Triassic Red Beds. Due to high deviation in the 36" hole section, the well was re-spudded. Junk was fished out of the hole before and after performing a leak off test below the 20" casing shoe. Gas bubbles were observed around the BOP stack, the 20" casing was perforated and several cement squeeze jobs were performed. The 13 3/8" casing was run just below the 20" casing. Some technical problems occurred while drilling the 12 1/4" hole. Some tight spots occurred in the two lowermost hole sections. The bottom hole assembly got stuck at 2027 m, but was successfully freed. The well was drilled with seawater and bentonite down to 809 m and with KCl/Polymer mud from 809 m to TD.
The well encountered a Late Jurassic intra-Spekk Formation sandstone unit which was previously unknown in the Haltenbanken area. It has later formally been named the Rogn Formation. It was oil filled from the top at 1621 m down to an OWC at 1660 m. Tests showed light oil with a low content of gas and condensate. The underlying reservoir sandstones of Middle/Early Jurassic to Late Triassic age were all water bearing, nor were oil shows reported in any other porous section in the well. Five cores were cut from the Late Jurassic into the Middle Jurassic. The three first were cut in the Rogn Formation while the two last recovered an underlying Spekk sequence and upper part of th
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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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