NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 3250
15/3-6
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Dry · Amoco Norway Oil Company · PL 187
15/3-6 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Amoco Norway Oil Company, entered Dec 14, 1998, to 2,793 m in the Jorsalfare Fm.
- 2,793
- m total depth · 2,786 m vertical
- 105
- m water depth
- Dec 14, 1998
- entered · completed Jan 5, 1999
- Jorsalfare Fm
- at total depth · Late Cretaceous
- 55.4
- m of core in 3 cores
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED MAR 1, 2026 · RELEASED JAN 5, 2001
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- MÆRSK JUTLANDER · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 23
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 23 m
- Maximum inclination
- 12.51000023°
- Drilling permit
- 941-L
- Licensing round
- 14
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 58.77317° N, 1.75414° E
Well history
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General
Well 15/3-6 was drilled to test the Paleocene Balder and Hermod sandstones of the Pinnsvin prospect, and had a licence requirement to penetrate Cretaceous age formations. The well was drilled within licence PL 187 (Amoco Norway, Statoil, Norsk Hydro). License PL 025 farmed into the well (Statoil, Elf, Total, Hydro) for 20% of well costs.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 15/3-6 was spudded 15. December 1998 with the semi-submersible installation Mærsk Jutlander, and drilled to TD at 2793 m in the Late Cretaceous Shetland Group. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 1018 m and oil based mud (Versavert) from 944 m to TD.
The Intra Balder and Hermod sandstones were encountered as prognosed but the well was found to be completely water wet all through. A wire line fluid sample was taken at 2160 m in the Intra Balder Formation Sandstone. Two cores were cut in the interval 2140 m to 2176 m in the Balder Formation and Intra Balder Formation sandstones, and one was cut from 2278 m to 2297.7 m in the Hermod Formation Sandstone.
The well was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole on 5 January 1999.
Testing
No drill stem test was performed
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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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