NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 5954
34/8-14 A
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil/gas · StatoilHydro ASA · Visund Sør · PL 120
34/8-14 A is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by StatoilHydro ASA, entered Oct 29, 2008, to 3,838 m in the Drake Fm.
Discovery 34/8-14 S Visund Sør · On the map →
- 3,838
- m total depth · 3,075.2 m vertical
- 292
- m water depth
- Oct 29, 2008
- entered · completed Dec 1, 2008
- Drake Fm
- at total depth · Early Jurassic
- 57.3
- m of core in 3 cores
- 113
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED DEC 1, 2010
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- BORGLAND DOLPHIN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 34
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 31 m
- Maximum inclination
- 58.40000153°
- Drilling permit
- 1207-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
- Hydrocarbons in
- Ness 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
Appraisal well 34/8-14 A was kicked off at 1282 m in well 34//8-14 S with the semi-submersible installation Borgland Dolphin on 20 October 2008 and drilled to TD at 3838 m (3075 m TVD) in the Early Jurassic Drake Formation. The well was drilled with XP-07 OBM from kick-off to TD.
Top Brent Group in well 34/8-14 A was encountered at 3500 m (2849 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 3579 m (2902 m TVD RKB). Oil was found down-to the Ness shales at 3591 m (2910 m TVD RKB). Above top Brent Group no oil shows were observed, and gas levels were low.
Three cores were cut from 3504.6 to 3570 m in well 34/8-14 A. The MDT was run for pressure points and fluid samples. Samples were obtained at 3514 m (gas), 3574 m (gas), and 3585 m (oil).
The well was plugged back and permane
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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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