NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 5327
7122/6-2
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Gas · Statoil ASA (old) · Snøhvit · PL 110 B
7122/6-2 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by Statoil ASA (old), entered Aug 10, 2006, to 3,070 m in the Kobbe Fm.
Discovery 7122/6-1 (Tornerose) · On the map →
- 3,070
- m total depth · 3,070 m vertical
- 408
- m water depth
- Aug 10, 2006
- entered · completed Sep 19, 2006
- Kobbe Fm
- at total depth · Middle Triassic
- 54.7
- m of core in 1 core
- 100
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED SEP 19, 2008
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- POLAR PIONEER · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 41
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 23 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.79999995°
- Drilling permit
- 1116-L
- Licensing round
- TFO2004
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 71.58711° N, 22.85598° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Snadd Fm · Late Triassic
Well history
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General
Block 7122/6 is situated in the Hammerfest Basin, ca. 45 km NNE of the Goliath Discovery, and ca. 55 km east of the Snøhvit Field. Well 7122/6-2 was drilled on the Tornerose prospect, a southwest dipping rotated fault block forming a structural closure with the north-eastern side delineated by a major NW-SE striking fault. Wildcat 7122/6-1 had been drilled by Total in 1987 and proven gass in the northwestern part of the structure. The primary objective of well 7122/6-2 was to prove hydrocarbons in sandstones of early Carnian age in the Snadd Formation, Kap Toscana Group. Sandstones in the Stø and Kobbe Formations were secondary targets.
Operations and results
Well 7122/6-2 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Polar Pioneer on 9 August 2006 and drilled to TD at
3070 m in the Middle Triassic Kobbe Formation. No shallow gas was observed. No significant technical problems were encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 1105 m, and with Glydril mud from 1105 m to TD.
Well 7122/6-2 penetrated rocks of Quaternary, Cretaceous, Jurassic, and Triassic age. Gas was proven in the Top Carnian tight sandstones (Snadd Formation) at 2387 m. No gas water contact could be established. Instead, MDT pressure points indicated that the gas occurred in separate sands without pressure communication. The fluorescence observed in the well was indicative of light hydrocarbons only. No direct fluorescence was observed. Rare traces of pale white very faint immediate cut fluorescence were observed in the interval 2048 to 2052 m. Rare traces of pale white very faint delayed cut fluorescence in the cored interval at 2452 to 2456 m. In the interval 2574 - 2643 m rare traces of very faint bluish white delayed cut fluorescence was observed.
One core was cut at 2452 - 2506 m in the Snadd Formation in the Top Carnian reservoir, as planned. MDT fluid samples were collected in the
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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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