NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 413
33/9-8
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil · Mobil Exploration Norway INC · Statfjord Nord · PL 037
33/9-8 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Mobil Exploration Norway INC, entered Nov 11, 1976, to 3,085 m in the Statfjord Gp.
Discovery 33/9-8 Statfjord Nord · On the map →
- 3,085
- m total depth
- 265
- m water depth
- Nov 11, 1976
- entered · completed Feb 18, 1977
- Statfjord Gp
- at total depth · Early Jurassic
- 36.5
- m of core in 3 cores
- 109
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED FEB 18, 1979
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- DEEPSEA SAGA · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 100
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 26 m
- Maximum inclination
- 0°
- Drilling permit
- 169-L
- Licensing round
- Awarded additionally to round 2-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 61.43818° N, 1.91802° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Intra Draupne Fm Ss · Late Jurassic
Well history
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General
Well 33/9-8, was drilled on a prospect north of the main Statfjord Field in the Tampen Spur area in the northern North Sea. The primary objective was to test sandstones in the Brent Group. Secondary objective was the Statfjord Group
Operations and results
Wildcat well 33/9-8 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Bergen on 11 November 1976 and drilled to TD at 3085 m in the Statfjord Group. The original hole was abandoned at 2974 with stuck pipe. A technical sidetrack was kicked off from 2533 m. Top Brent Group is 6 m deeper in the sidetrack compared to in the original hole.
The sand and sand stringers generally associated with the lower portion of the Paleocene in the area were not developed in 33/9-8. An oil filled Intra-Draupne Formation sandstone was penetrated at 2670 m. This was the first encounter of Late Jurassic sandstone in the 037 License area. The gross thickness of this sandstone is 45.8 m. Net sand was found to be 34.8 m with 27% average porosity, based on log analysis. The whole sand was oil filled down to top Heather Formation at 2716 m. The Brent Group sandstones was encountered at 2740 m with oil down to the OWC at 2741.5 m. Gross thickness of the Brent Group sandstones was 140.3 m. Net sand was found to be 124 m with 22% average porosity. The secondary objective Statfjord Group was water wet without shows.
Three cores were cut in Late Jurassic Viking Group the interval 2670 to 2724.8 m (54.8m). The core recoveries were 2670 to 2671.27 m (7%), 2688.5 to 2706.26 m (97%), and 2706.8 to 2724.5 m (98%) for cores one, two, and three, respectively. The cores were cut in the original hole. Add six meters to the core depths to match with the we
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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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