NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 2114
33/9-17
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil shows · Mobil Exploration Norway INC · PL 172
33/9-17 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Mobil Exploration Norway INC, entered Apr 2, 1994, to 3,233 m in the Ness Fm.
- 3,233
- m total depth · 3,230 m vertical
- 228
- m water depth
- Apr 2, 1994
- entered · completed May 4, 1994
- Ness Fm
- at total depth · Middle Jurassic
- 29.3
- m of core in 3 cores
- 120
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED MAR 1, 2026 · RELEASED MAY 4, 1996
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- TREASURE SAGA · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 33
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 26 m
- Maximum inclination
- 5.5999999°
- Drilling permit
- 786-L
- Licensing round
- 13
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 61.45516° N, 1.84605° E
Well history
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General
Well 33/9-17 is located immediately north of the Statfjord field, northwest of the Statfjord Nord field with the Murchison field to the west.
The primary objective of the well was to evaluate the hydrocarbon potential of intra-Draupne sandstone informally named the Munin sandstone unit. It was designed to find commercial hydrocarbons in a structural/stratigraphic play above 3080 meters sub-sea, the interpreted oil/water contact. The secondary objective was to evaluate the Middle Jurassic sandstones of the Brent Group.
Operations and results
Well 33/9-17 was spudded on 2 April 1994 with the semi-submersible rig Treasure Saga and reached a total driller's depth of 3233 m RKB in the Middle Jurassic Brent Group. The well was drilled with seawater and swept with high viscosity mud down to the 12 1/4" section, while KCl/polymer/Glycol mud was used when drilling the 12 1/4" section and to TD.
The Munin sandstone unit (3050 - 3131m) was mostly water bearing with localized hydrocarbon shows. Average water saturation within the reservoir is 89.2%. The unit consisted of 47.3 meters of net reservoir out of a gross interval of 81 meters (N/G = 58.4%). The net reservoir was of excellent quality. Average Munin porosity was 22.6% and permeability was generally over l Darcy. The Brent Group (3187 -3233m) has 22.9 meters of good quality reservoir rock from a gross sandstone thickness of 37 meters, but is water bearing. Average porosity for the reservoir rock is 19.7%.
None of the analysed potential source rocks of this well are within the oil window and only limited early generation of hydrocarbons has taken place. The Viking Group cla
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