NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 251
2/1-3
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil · BP Norway Limited U.A. · Gyda · PL 019 B
2/1-3 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by BP Norway Limited U.A., entered Nov 3, 1979, to 4,297 m in the Zechstein Gp.
Discovery 2/1-3 Gyda · On the map →
- 4,297
- m total depth · 4,296 m vertical
- 66
- m water depth
- Nov 3, 1979
- entered · completed Mar 29, 1980
- Zechstein Gp
- at total depth · Late Permian
- 51.1
- m of core in 4 cores
- 162
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED MAR 29, 1982
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- SEDCO H · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 148
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 30 m
- Maximum inclination
- 3°
- Drilling permit
- 229-L
- Licensing round
- 1-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 56.91150° N, 3.10844° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Ula Fm · Late Jurassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 2/1-3 was drilled on the Cod Terrace on the margin between the southern Vestland Arch and the Central Trough in the North Sea. The primary objective of the well was to test Late Jurassic sandstone within a fault sealed dip closure, against the downthrown side of a westerly heading fault complex at the base of the Cretaceous. Triassic sandstone was a secondary objective.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 2/1-3 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation SEDCO H on 3 November 1979 and drilled to TD at 4297 in the Late Permian Zechstein Group. The well was drilled with Seawater down to 625 m and with Lignosulphonate mud from 625 m to TD.
Top of the Tyne Group, Mandal Formation, was encountered at 3791 m, with the Late Jurassic sandstone at 3819.5 m. The Late Jurassic sandstone reservoir was oil-bearing all through. The reservoir is a 59.5 m thick homogeneous fine to medium grained sandstone with a porosity from 15% to 22%. The sandstone grades into a well cemented argillaceous siltstone below. No oil/water contact was established. Oil shows were recorded in Tor Formation limestone at 3000 - 3005 m, throughout the Late Jurassic reservoir sandstone, and in Middle Jurassic Bryne Formation sandstone at 4020 to 4040 m.
Four cores were cut from 3823.0 to 3893.5 m in the Ula Formation reservoir sandstones.
The well was permanently abandoned on 29 March 1980 as an oil discovery.
Testing
Three drill stem tests were performed in the Late Jurassic sandstones.
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