NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 287
2/11-3 A
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Amoco Norway Oil Company · Hod · PL 033
2/11-3 A is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Amoco Norway Oil Company, entered Dec 3, 1977, to 3,400 m in the Hod Fm.
Discovery 2/11-10 S · On the map →
- 3,400
- m total depth · 2,857 m vertical
- 72
- m water depth
- Dec 3, 1977
- entered · completed Mar 13, 1978
- Hod Fm
- at total depth · Late Cretaceous
- 36.3
- m of core in 7 cores
- 110
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED MAR 13, 1980
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- DYVI BETA · Jack-up 3 legs
- Drilling days
- 101
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 36 m
- Maximum inclination
- 53.40000153°
- Drilling permit
- 192-L
- Licensing round
- 2-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 56.18159° N, 3.46438° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Ekofisk Fm · Paleocene
- Hydrocarbons in
- Tor Fm · Late Cretaceous
- Hydrocarbons in
- Hod Fm · Late Cretaceous
Well history
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General
The Hod complex was proved to consist of two individual structures by well 2/11-3, which was drilled about 2.5 km due east of 2/11-2. Seismically, the Hod structural complex is difficult to map due to shallow gas in the Tertiary, mainly over the western part of the structure, which complicates the time to depth conversion. As it turned out, the chalk in 2/11-2 was drilled close to the limit of structural closure of the East Structure and was therefore dry with shows only. Well 2/11-3 A was a sidetrack from well 2/11-3 to test Late Cretaceous chalk in a graben feature indicated by seismic in the crestal regional of the East Hod structure. A graben, if present, would have possibilities for preservation of younger Maastrichtian rock which in general is of high reservoir quality with high porosity and often very high oil saturation.
Operations and results
Well 2/11-3A was sidetracked from just below the 13 3/8-inch casing shoe on 3 December 197 7 and drilled to TD at a total measured depth of 3400 m (2857 m TVD) in the Late Cretaceous Hod Formation. The pipe stuck at TD prior to logging and deviation survey. After working on the stuck pipe the string was disconnected at 3189 m and the well was kicked-off on the low side in order to complete logging and testing of the pay-zone discovered before the pipe got stuck. This technical sidetrack was drilled to 3333 m (2812 m TVD).
Top Chalk was encountered in the sidetrack at 3189.5 meters (2713 meters TVD). The uppermost 5 m belonged to the Ekofisk Formation. Then followed 58.5 m of Tor Formation, 13 m of tight Middle Hod Formation, and 70 m of Lower Hod. The Chalk was found oil bearing from top Chalk to TD in the sidetrack, with exception of 8 m in Middle Hod. Shows on cuttings wer
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