6608/10-7

Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s · Urd · PL 128

6608/10-7 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s, entered Mar 30, 2001, to 2,319 m in the Åre Fm.

Discovery 6608/10-6 Svale · On the map →

2,319: m total depth · 2,318 m vertical
377: m water depth
Mar 30, 2001: entered · completed May 23, 2001
Åre Fm: at total depth · Early Jurassic
139.1: m of core in 8 cores
84: °C bottom-hole temperature

SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED MAY 23, 2003

On file for this wellbore

What the Directorate holds from this wellbore. Each opens the section that lists it.

Drilling

Drilling facility: BORGLAND DOLPHIN · Semisub steel
Drilling days: 55
Kelly bushing elevation: 31 m
Maximum inclination: 3.0999999°
Drilling permit: 1000-L
Licensing round: 10-B
Plugged and abandoned: —
Core samples available: Yes
Cuttings samples available: Yes
Position · ED50: 66.07819° N, 8.24536° E
Hydrocarbons in: Intra Melke Fm Ss · Middle Jurassic
Hydrocarbons in: Åre Fm · Early Jurassic

Well history

WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE

General

The main objective of well 6608/10-7 was to test the extent of hydrocarbons in Late to Early Jurassic sandstones in the Melke- and Åre Formation, down flanks of well 6608/10-6, and if possible prove fluid contacts. Another objective, originally designated to a possible sidetrack of well 6608/10-7, was to perform an interference test in the Åre Formation towards well 6608/10-6. A sidetrack was to be drilled if analysis of formation water samples confirmed high content of

Barium. This would demand information about communication towards 6608/10-6 from a position further down flanks than the 6608/10-7 position.

Operations and results

Appraisal well 6608/10-7 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Borgland Dolphin on 30 March 2001 and drilled to TD at 2319 m in Early Jurassic sediments of the Åre Formation. No shallow gas was observed by the ROV at the wellhead. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 1315 m and with Aquadrill PAC/Glycol/KCL water base mud system from 1315 m to TD.

Oil shows appeared at ca 1800 m (top Cromer Knoll Group) and disappeared below 2018 m (top Båt Group). Two reservoir zones were penetrated, a Melke Formation Sandstone member and the Åre Formation. A silty/sandy Not Formation was also encountered, but it did not have the same reservoir quality as the two previously mentioned. The sandstone sequence of the Melke Formation proved to be oil bearing. The main part of the oil bearing reservoir zone was cored. Oil was observed down to top Not Formation at 2007 m. No oil-water contact was encountered. Weak hydrocarbon shows were seen in core chips from the Not Formation. The Åre Formation proved to be water filled up to its top at 2018 m. The water samples proved to have a Barium content lower than the limit set for requiring the sidetrack to be drilled. The observed formation tops were not in accordance with the prognosis. The difference between the prognosis and t

Around this wellbore

This wellbore on Sodir FactPages → · Press release →

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.

Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/norway/wells/4273, documented in the API reference.