NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 1768
15/9-17 R
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Gas/condensate · Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s · Sleipner Øst · PL 046
15/9-17 R is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s, entered Apr 28, 1991, to 3,123 m in the Smith Bank Fm.
Discovery 15/9-17 Loke · On the map →
- 3,123
- m total depth · 3,119 m vertical
- 85
- m water depth
- Apr 28, 1991
- entered · completed May 4, 1991
- Smith Bank Fm
- at total depth · Triassic
- —
- m of core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED MAY 4, 1993
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
- ROSS RIG (2) · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 7
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.5°
- Drilling permit
- 356-L2
- Licensing round
- 3
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- No
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 58.44561° N, 1.94822° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Heimdal Fm · Paleocene
- Hydrocarbons in
- Skagerrak Fm · Triassic
- Hydrocarbons in
- Vestland Gp · Middle Jurassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 15/9-17 R is a re-entry of well 15/9-17 on the Sleipner Terrace in the Viking Graben of the North Sea. The purpose of the re-entry was plugging and permanent abandonment.
Operations and results
Well 15/9-17 was re-entered with the semi-submersible installation Ross Rig on 28 April 1991.
No significant problem was encountered in the operations.
The well was plugged and permanently abandoned on 4 May 1991.
Testing
No drill stem test was performed.
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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.
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