NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 487
30/6-17
Exploration · Wildcat · Suspended · Not applicable · Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS · Oseberg · PL 053
30/6-17 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS, entered Aug 12, 1985, to 615 m in the Nordland Gp.
Discovery 30/6-17 R · On the map →
- 615
- m total depth · 615 m vertical
- 110
- m water depth
- Aug 12, 1985
- entered · completed Aug 24, 1985
- Nordland Gp
- at total depth · Pliocene
- —
- m of core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED AUG 24, 1987
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- VILDKAT EXPLORER · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 13
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.5°
- Drilling permit
- 478-L
- Licensing round
- 4
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- No
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 60.57105° N, 2.74996° E
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 30/6-17 was drilled on the Alpha structure on the western side of the Oseberg Field in the northern North Sea. The structure is a tilted and rotated fault block with a Jurassic sequence dipping towards the east. The main objective was to prove hydrocarbons in the Statfjord Formation. Prognosed depth was 200 m into the Statfjord Formation with TD at ca 2682 m.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 30/6-17 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Vildkat Explorer on 12 August 1985 and drilled to TD at 615 m in Pliocene sediments of the Nordland Group. The well was drilled to TD in the 26" section and the 20" casing was set at 601 m. When preparing to run the BOP the travelling block hit the crown block. Because of serious damage to equipment involved the decision was made to temporary abandon the well. The well was drilled with spud mud.
No cores were cut and no wire line fluid samples were taken.
The well was permanently abandoned on 24 August 1985 as a dry well.
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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