NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 5282
34/10-49 A
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Dry · Statoil ASA (old) · PL 050
34/10-49 A is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Statoil ASA (old), entered May 21, 2006, to 3,312 m in the Ness Fm.
- 3,312
- m total depth · 2,471.5 m vertical
- 138
- m water depth
- May 21, 2006
- entered · completed Jun 10, 2006
- Ness Fm
- at total depth · Middle Jurassic
- —
- m of core
- 105
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED OCT 3, 2026 · RELEASED JUN 10, 2008
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- OCEAN VANGUARD · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 21
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 21.5 m
- Maximum inclination
- 76°
- Drilling permit
- 1108-L
- Licensing round
- Awarded additionally to round 3
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- No
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 61.12918° N, 2.09059° E
Well history
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General
Well 34/10-49 A was drilled as a geological sidetrack to 34/10-49 S on a prospect located ca 10 km south-west of the Gullfaks Field in the northern North Sea. The primary objective of the well was to explore the oil and gas potential in the Apollo prospect in sandstones of Late Cretaceous age. Final TD was to be decided after penetrating the Brent Group. The well was the last of three well paths drilled from the 34/10-49 location to explore five different targets.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 34/10-49 A was drilled with the semi-submersible installation Ocean Vanguard. It was kicked off from 1274 m in 34/10-49 S on 21 May 2006 and drilled to TD at 3312 m in the Middle Jurassic Ness Formation. No reservoir was encountered in Late Cretaceous. Middle Jurassic, Brent Group sandstones were penetrated, but were found dry.
The well bore was plugged back and permanently abandoned on 10 June 2006 as 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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