NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 5335

31/5-4 AR2

Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil/gas · Statoil ASA (old) · Troll · PL 085

31/5-4 AR2 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Statoil ASA (old), entered Aug 24, 2003, to 2,610 m in the Sognefjord Fm.

Discovery 31/2-1 (Troll Vest) · On the map →

2,610
m total depth · 1,586 m vertical
316
m water depth
Aug 24, 2003
entered · completed Sep 5, 2003
Sognefjord Fm
at total depth · Late Jurassic
—
m of core
—
°C bottom-hole temperature

SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED SEP 5, 2005

On file for this wellbore

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Drilling

Drilling facility
BIDEFORD DOLPHIN · Semisub steel
Drilling days
13
Kelly bushing elevation
31 m
Maximum inclination
0°
Drilling permit
656-L4
Licensing round
Awarded additionally to round 7
Plugged and abandoned
Sep 5, 2003
Core samples available
No
Cuttings samples available
No
Position · ED50
60.72116° N, 3.56196° E
Hydrocarbons in
Sognefjord Fm · Late Jurassic

Well history

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General

Well 31/5-4 AR2 is a re-entry of the horizontal side track well 31/5-4 A in the Troll West oil and gas province. The objective was plugging and permanent abandonment

Operations and results

Well bore 31/5-4 A was re-entered (31/5-4 AR) with the semi-submersible installation Bideford Dolphin 24 August 2003. The well was plugged and permanently abandoned on 5 September 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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