NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 5943
34/8-14 S
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil/gas · StatoilHydro ASA · Visund Sør · PL 120
34/8-14 S is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by StatoilHydro ASA, entered Sep 17, 2008, to 3,470 m in the Drake Fm.
Discovery 34/8-14 S Visund Sør · On the map →
- 3,470
- m total depth · 3,133 m vertical
- 292
- m water depth
- Sep 17, 2008
- entered · completed Oct 21, 2008
- Drake Fm
- at total depth · Early Jurassic
- 54.8
- m of core in 2 cores
- 115
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED OCT 21, 2010
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- BORGLAND DOLPHIN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 35
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 31 m
- Maximum inclination
- 42.90000153°
- Drilling permit
- 1201-L
- Licensing round
- 10-A
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 61.31053° N, 2.34247° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Tarbert Fm · Middle Jurassic
Well history
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General
Well 34/8-14 S with geological sidetracks A, B, C, and D were drilled on the Pan/Pandora prospect on the structural trend between the Visund and the Gimle Fields in the northern North Sea. The western part of the structure, the Pan structure, is defined by rotated fault blocks while the eastern part, the Pandora structure, consists of slided degradational blocks. The general objective of all the wells was to test the hydrocarbon potential in the structure. Wells 34/8-14 S (Pan) and 34/8-14 A (Pandora) were drilled to provide important information on the hydrocarbon phases and HC/water contacts. Both wells both proved hydrocarbons and sidetracks B, C, and D were subsequently drilled to further delineate hydrocarbon contacts and reserves.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 34/8-14 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Borgland Dolphin on 17 September 2008 and drilled to TD at 3470 m (3133 m TVD) in the Early Jurassic Drake Formation. Angle was built slowly up to ca 10 deg deviation at 1268 m, then a steeper angle was built up to a maximum of 42 deg at 2268 m. The well was drilled with Seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 1268 m, with KCl polymer with GEM GP from 1268 m to 1271 m, and with XP07 OBM from 1271 m to TD.
Top Brent Group in well 34/8-14 S was encountered at 3187 m (2865 m TVD RKB) and proved to be oil and gas bearing. The quality of the reservoir sandstones of the Tarbert Formation was excellent. A GOC was found at 3226 m (2902 m TVD RKB). Oil was found down-to the Ness shales at 3247 m (2922 m TVD RKB. Above top Brent Group no oil shows are reported and gas levels were low.
Two cores were cut from 3194 to 3250.5 m in well 34/8-14 S. The MDT was run fo
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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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