NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 373
25/11-13
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Esso Exploration and Production Norway A/S · Balder · PL 001
25/11-13 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Esso Exploration and Production Norway A/S, entered May 10, 1981, to 1,932 m in the Tor Fm.
Discovery 25/11-1 Balder · On the map →
- 1,932
- m total depth · 1,932 m vertical
- 127
- m water depth
- May 10, 1981
- entered · completed May 29, 1981
- Tor Fm
- at total depth · Late Cretaceous
- —
- m of core
- 55
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED MAY 29, 1983
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- GLOMAR BISCAY II · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 20
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 3°
- Drilling permit
- 287-L
- Licensing round
- 1-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 59.19069° N, 2.39003° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Intra Balder Fm Ss · Eocene
- Hydrocarbons in
- Heimdal Fm · Paleocene
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 25/11-13 was drilled to appraise the Balder Field on the Utsira High in the North Sea. The objective was to establish the presence of a thick accumulation of oil sand in the southern part of the Balder Field, and evaluate the sand-shale distribution and the reservoir quality of the Paleocene sands. Top of the Paleocene reservoir sands was anticipated at 1702 m MSL.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 25/11-13 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Glomar Biscay II on 10 May 1981 and drilled to TD at 1932 m in the Late Cretaceous Tor Formation. The well was drilled with seawater and bentonite down to 500 m and with seawater/bentonite/lignosulphonate mud from 500 m to TD.
Shows of hydrocarbons were present in three 1-2 m thick Intra-Balder Formation sand beds between 1723 and 1743 m. The main oil-bearing Paleocene reservoir sand (Hermod Formation) was encountered between 1768.8 m to 1816.8 m. It contained oil down to the OWC at 1783 m (1758 m MSL), which is close to the regional Balder Field OWC. The average porosity in the oil zone was 33.5 %. Poorly developed 4 m thick Heimdal Formation sand was penetrated at 1858 m, and then a massive Ty Formation sandstone was penetrated from 1875 m down to the Shetland Group at 1908 m.
No cores were cut and no wire line fluid samples were taken.
The well was permanently abandoned on 29 May 1981 as an oil appraisal.
Testing
No drill stem test was performed.
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About this data
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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