NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 4709
34/8-4 AR
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Statoil ASA (old) · Visund · PL 120
34/8-4 AR is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Statoil ASA (old), entered Feb 21, 2003, to 3,574 m in the Lunde Fm.
Discovery 34/8-4 S · On the map →
- 3,574
- m total depth · 3,320 m vertical
- 309
- m water depth
- Feb 21, 2003
- entered · completed Mar 7, 2003
- Lunde Fm
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- —
- m of core
- 123
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED MAR 7, 2005
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- BIDEFORD DOLPHIN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 15
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 31 m
- Maximum inclination
- 43.5°
- Drilling permit
- 711-L2
- Licensing round
- 10-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- No
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 61.32488° N, 2.42185° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Statfjord Gp · Early Jurassic
- Hydrocarbons in
- Lunde Fm · Late Triassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 34/8-4 AR on the Visund Field is a re-entry of well 34/8-4 A, which was suspended in 1992. The objective of the entry was permanent abandonment
Operations and results
Well 34/8-4 A was re-entered with the semi-submersible installation Bideford Dolphin on 21 February 2003. The well was plugged and permanently abandoned on 7 March 2003.
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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