NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 5949
6608/10-12
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil · StatoilHydro ASA · Skuld · PL 128
6608/10-12 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by StatoilHydro ASA, entered Oct 19, 2008, to 3,180 m in the Red Beds (informal).
Discovery 6608/10-12 Skuld · On the map →
- 3,180
- m total depth · 3,179.3 m vertical
- 338
- m water depth
- Oct 19, 2008
- entered · completed Dec 21, 2008
- Red Beds (informal)
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- 92
- m of core in 5 cores
- 104
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED DEC 21, 2010
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- OCEAN VANGUARD · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 64
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 22 m
- Maximum inclination
- 3.79999995°
- Drilling permit
- 1204-L
- Licensing round
- 10-B
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 66.22936° N, 8.31269° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Lysing Fm · Early Cretaceous
- Hydrocarbons in
- Åre Fm · Early Jurassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 6608/10-12 was drilled on the Dompap structure, about 17 kilometres north-northeast of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea. The primary objective was to prove hydrocarbons in the Jurassic sandstones of the Båt group, Åre 2 and Åre 1 formations. Secondary objective in the main bore was to test for hydrocarbons in the Cretaceous Måke prospect, comprising Cretaceous Intra-Lange/Lysing Formation sandstone.
Operations and results
Well 6608/10-12 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Ocean Vanguard on 19 October 2008 and drilled to TD at 3180 in the Late Triassic Red beds. No shallow gas was observed. Operations were delayed a number of times due to bad weather, but no significant operational problems were encountered. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 1415 m and with KCl/polymer/GEM GP mud from 1415 m to TD.
The well penetrated rocks of Quaternary, Tertiary, Cretaceous, Jurassic, and Triassic age. The Lysing Formation was penetrated at 2522 m to 2557 m with four meters of net oil bearing sandstone in the interval 2537 to 2542 m. No OWC was observed. Below the Lysing Formation a 42 m thick section of intra Lange Formation (middle Aptian) water bearing sandstone was encountered. Several Intra-Melke Formation sandstone units were encountered in the interval 2688 to 2738 m. These sandstones were water wet without shows. The main Åre reservoir section was encountered at 2770 m, 4 m deeper than prognosis. Oil was proven in the Åre 2 Formation. Pressure points indicated that the reservoir was oil-filled down to the base of Åre 2. No definitive OWC was observed.
Three cores were cut from 2777 to 2826.9 m in the Åre 2 Formation; a fourth core was cut from 282
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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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