NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 179
2/7-1
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil · Phillips Petroleum Company Norway · Eldfisk · PL 018
2/7-1 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Phillips Petroleum Company Norway, entered Aug 3, 1970, to 4,572 m in the Vestland Gp.
Discovery 2/7-1 Eldfisk · On the map →
- 4,572
- m total depth
- 71
- m water depth
- Aug 3, 1970
- entered · completed Dec 11, 1970
- Vestland Gp
- at total depth · Late Jurassic
- 39.2
- ft of core in 4 cores
- 160
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED DEC 11, 1972
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- OCEAN VIKING · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 131
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 27 m
- Maximum inclination
- 8.60000038°
- Drilling permit
- 42-L
- Licensing round
- 1-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 56.42908° N, 3.20395° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Ekofisk Fm · Paleocene
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
an lang=EN-GB>General
Well 2/7-1 was drilled on the Eldfisk structure on the Lindesnes Ridge in the North Sea. The primary objective was to test the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene chalk sequence that had proved oil in the Ekofisk structure north of Eldfisk. A secondary objective was to test older Mesozoic sediments
Operations and results
Wildcat well 2/7-1 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Ocean Viking on 3 August 1970 and drilled to TD at 4573 m in the Vestland Group. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 588 m, with seawater/Drill Aid mud from 588 m to 3102 m, and with seawater/lignosulphonate mud from3102 m to TD.
Top of the Danian chalk sequence, Ekofisk Formation, is at 2934 m, while top of the Cretaceous chalk, Tor Formation, is at 3014 m. In this first well on the structure, only small amounts of live hydrocarbons were found in the Ekofisk carbonates.
Three cores were cut from 2956.6 to 2987.3 m in the Ekofisk Formation. A fourth core was cut from 3032.8 to 3041.9 m. No fluid sample was taken.
The well was permanently abandoned on 11 December 1970 as an oil discovery
Testing
A drill stem test was performed in the interval 2942 to 2954 m plus 2957 to 2975 m in the Danian chalk (Ekofisk Formation). The flow rate after acidizing was too small to measure. The recovered fluid was composed of 65% oil and 35% water. The oil density was 32.2 °API.
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