6608/10-8

Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil · Statoil ASA (old) · Urd · PL 128

6608/10-8 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by Statoil ASA (old), entered Dec 29, 2001, to 2,652 m in the Åre Fm.

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2,652: m total depth · 2,650 m vertical
376: m water depth
Dec 29, 2001: entered · completed Apr 12, 2002
Åre Fm: at total depth · Early Jurassic
94.2: m of core in 7 cores
97: °C bottom-hole temperature

SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED APR 12, 2004

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Drilling

Drilling facility: STENA DON · Semisub steel
Drilling days: 105
Kelly bushing elevation: 24 m
Maximum inclination: 5.5999999°
Drilling permit: 1024-L
Licensing round: 10-B
Plugged and abandoned: —
Core samples available: Yes
Cuttings samples available: Yes
Position · ED50: 66.05946° N, 8.17859° E
Hydrocarbons in: Intra Melke Fm Ss · Middle Jurassic
Hydrocarbons in: Fangst Gp · Middle Jurassic
Hydrocarbons in: Båt Gp · Early Jurassic

Well history

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General

Well 6608/10-8 was drilled in the Nordland II area on the Stµr structure, ca 3 km north east of the Norne Field. Geologically the structure is part of the D°nna Terrace. The primary objective of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in sandstones of the Middle to Early Jurassic Garn, Ile, Tofte, and Åre Formations. The hydrocarbon potential of the Melke Formation of Late Jurassic age was considered as secondary objective.

Operations and results

Exploration well 6608/10-8 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Stena Don on 29 December 2001 and drilled to TD at 2652 m (2626 m TVD MSL) in the Early Jurassic Åre Formation. The well was drilled with seawater down to 1315 m, and with Aquadril (KCl / polymer / glycol mud) from 1315 m to TD. No shallow gas was encountered and drilling went without significant technical difficulties.

Top Melke sandstone came in at 2224 m, top Not sandstone at 2348 m, top Ile Formation at 2389 m, top Tilje Formation at 2391 m, and top Åre Formation at 2402.5 m. Oil was encountered in sandstones of the Melke, Not, Ile, Tilje, and Åre Formations. An OWC was found at 2483.7 m (2458.1 m TVD MSL) in the Åre Formation, based on petrophysical interpretation. Wire line MDT pressure measurements were not useful for establishing the OWC. The oil was verified by shows and laboratory analyses of cores, logs, and fluid samples. Oil samples were taken on wire line in all oil bearing reservoir zones in the well. Good oil shows were reported from 2226 m down to 2486 m. The composition of the oil samples from the Not and Åre Formations was very similar to that of the oil on the Norne Field.

Seven cores were cut in the Melke, Not, Ile, Tilje, and Åre Formations, recovering a total of 94.1 m. Coring in Åre proved difficult due to a heterogeneous sand/shale lithology. Three MDT runs were performed. Forty-six pressure points were taken in the first. In the second oil samples were taken in the Not For

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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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