NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 4824
34/10-45 B
Exploration · Wildcat · Re-class to dev · Gas/condensate · Statoil ASA (old) · Gullfaks · PL 050
34/10-45 B is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Statoil ASA (old), entered Oct 7, 2003, to 7,928 m in the Tarbert Fm.
Discovery 34/10-45 B · On the map →
- 7,928
- m total depth · 2,206 m vertical
- 142.5
- m water depth
- Oct 7, 2003
- entered · completed Nov 24, 2003
- Tarbert Fm
- at total depth · Middle Jurassic
- —
- m of core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED NOV 24, 2005
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- GULLFAKS B · Condeep 4 shafts
- Drilling days
- 49
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 81 m
- Maximum inclination
- 90.5°
- Drilling permit
- 1068-L
- Licensing round
- Awarded additionally to round 3
- Plugged and abandoned
- Nov 24, 2003
- Core samples available
- No
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 61.20276° N, 2.20165° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- No Formal Name · Late Cretaceous
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 34/10-45 B drilled from the Gullfaks B installation to a structure south of Gullfaks Vest. The main purpose of the well was to test a prospect in the Middle Jurassic Age.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 34/10-45 B was kicked off from development well 34/10-B-42 D on 10 October 2003 and drilled from slot 30 on the fixed installation Gullfaks B. It was drilled to TD at 7928 m (2206 m TVD) in the Middle Jurassic Tarbert Formation. The well was drilled with Paratherm oil based mud from kick-off to TD.
Gas/condensate was proven in a Cretaceous sandstone within the Kyrre Formation, informally named the Krans member.
No cores were cut and no fluid sample was taken.
The well was completed on 24 November 2003 as a gas/condensate discovery and subsequently reclassified to production well 34/10-B-42 E.
Testing
No drill stem test was performed.
Around this wellbore
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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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