NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 196
2/4-7
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Phillips Petroleum Company Norway · Tor · PL 018
2/4-7 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Phillips Petroleum Company Norway, entered Jul 24, 1971, to 3,494 m in the Hod Fm.
Discovery 2/5-1 Tor · On the map →
- 3,494
- m total depth
- 68
- m water depth
- Jul 24, 1971
- entered · completed Oct 8, 1971
- Hod Fm
- at total depth · Late Cretaceous
- 136.6
- ft of core in 13 cores
- 142
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED OCT 8, 1973
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- MÆRSK EXPLORER · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 77
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 34 m
- Maximum inclination
- 0.75°
- Drilling permit
- 59-L
- Licensing round
- 1-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 56.63483° N, 3.27925° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Tor Fm · Late Cretaceous
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 2/4-7 was drilled on a structure ca six km west off the Ekofisk discovery. The objective of the well was to test the Danian limestone with estimated 200 m gross / 120 m net pay, and the Late Cretaceous limestone with estimated 60 m gross / 15 m net pay. These Formations had proved oil productive in the other wells on the Tor structure. Secondary objective was possible Paleocene sand in the interval 3020 - 3140 m. Planned depth was 3414 m (11200 ft).
Operations and results
Appraisal well 2/4-7 was spudded with the jack-up installation M ærsk Explorer on and drilled to TD at 3493 m in the Late Cretaceous Tor Formation. The drill pipe stuck at 3405 m, but was freed after seven hours working. The well was drilled with seawater and gel down to 555 m and with seawater/drill aid and 2 - 5% diesel from 555 m to TD.
Top Paleocene (Balder Formation) was encountered at 3048 m. The Paleocene contained only minor, thin sand beds. The chalk group came in with the Ekofisk Formation at 3175 m and the Tor Formation at 3304 m. Fair shows were recorded on cores in the top 2 m of the Ekofisk Formation, otherwise Ekofisk only had scattered shows. Fair to good shows were again recorded in the Tor Formation, from the top and down to 3332 m. Below this depth shows were reported as spotty, on fracture plains. Oil was confirmed by testing in the top 24 m of the Tor Formation. The test in top Ekofisk gave only water with a trace of gas. Thirteen cores were cut in the well, recovering a total of 164 m core. Core 1 to 9 were cut throughout the Ekofisk Formation, the rest were cut in the upper part of the Tor Formation. Core depths were reported to be 4 - 5 m shallower than log depth for all cores except core 5, which need to be shifted only + 1 m. No wire line fluid samples were taken.
The well was permanently abandoned on 18 October as an oil appraisal.
Testing
Seven drill stem tests were carried out through per
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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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