NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 206
2/7-18
Exploration · Wildcat · Junked · Not applicable · Phillips Petroleum Company Norway · PL 018
2/7-18 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Phillips Petroleum Company Norway, entered Aug 20, 1980, to 601 m in the Nordland Gp.
- 601
- m total depth · 601 m vertical
- 73
- m water depth
- Aug 20, 1980
- entered · completed Aug 31, 1980
- Nordland Gp
- at total depth · Pliocene
- —
- m of core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED AUG 31, 1982
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- BORGSTEN DOLPHIN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 12
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 0°
- Drilling permit
- 259-L
- Licensing round
- 1-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 56.33843° N, 3.10378° E
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Wildcat well 2/7-18 was drilled as replacement well for 2/7-17, which was junked for technical reasons. The well should evaluate a low relief structure to the southwest of the Eldfisk Field in the southern Norwegian North Sea. The primary objective was to test the Danian - Late Cretaceous limestone and chalk. Secondary objectives were the Late Cretaceous and Jurassic where irregular and lens-shaped structures on the seismic records were interpreted as possible sandstones with stratigraphically trapped hydrocarbons.
Operations and results
Well 2/7-18 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Borgsten Dolphin on 20 August 1980 and drilled to 601 m in assumed Pliocene sediments. After setting the 20" casing, mechanical problems forced abandonment of the well. The objectives were not reached. The well was drilled with seawater.
No logs were run, and no sample of any kind was collected.
The well was permanently abandoned on 31 August 1980 as a junk well.
Testing
No drill stem test was performed
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