NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 159
7/11-3
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil shows · Phillips Petroleum Company Norway · Cod · PL 018
7/11-3 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Phillips Petroleum Company Norway, entered Oct 17, 1968, to 3,350 m in the Ekofisk Fm.
Discovery 7/11-1 Cod · On the map →
- 3,350
- m total depth
- 79
- m water depth
- Oct 17, 1968
- entered · completed Feb 7, 1969
- Ekofisk Fm
- at total depth · Paleocene
- 37
- m of core in 3 cores
- 133
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED FEB 7, 1971
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- OCEAN TRAVELER · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 114
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 27 m
- Maximum inclination
- 3.70000005°
- Drilling permit
- 20-L
- Licensing round
- 1-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 57.04967° N, 2.47189° E
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 7/11-3 was drilled ca 3.5 km south-east of the 7/11-1 Cod discovery well on the eastern side of the Breiflabb Basin in the southern North Sea. The objective was to test the extension of the Paleocene sands that were found hydrocarbon bearing in wells 7/11-1 and 7/11-2.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 7/11-3 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Ocean Traveller on 17 October 1968 and drilled to TD at 3350 m. The hole collapsed when drilling a shale section between 1950 m and 2300 m. Bridging took place until the mud weight was increased to 14.5 ppg. Otherwise the well was drilled without significant problems. The well was drilled with a Drispac-Flosal-Desco system, which was salt saturated when drilling the lower part of the hole.
Minor amounts of oil and gas was tested in a Forties Formation sandstone sequence correlated to the best sandstone sequences that were tested in the two first Cod wells.
Three cores were cut in the intervals 3074.2 to 3082 m, 3092.8 to 3105 m, and 3160.3 to 3177.2 m. No wire line fluid samples were taken.
The well was permanently abandoned on 7 January 1969 as an oil appraisal well.
Testing
Eight drill stem testes were carried out.
DST 1 tested the interval 3239.7 to 3246.4 m. It produced a total of 15 m3 diesel cushion, mud and water. Bottom hole temperature was 129 deg C.
DST 2 tested the interval 3210.2 to 3231.8 m. It produced a total of
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