NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 6042
16/2-5
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil/gas · StatoilHydro Petroleum AS · PL 265
16/2-5 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by StatoilHydro Petroleum AS, entered Feb 22, 2009, to 2,373 m in the Basement.
Discovery 16/2-5 (P-Graben) · On the map →
- 2,373
- m total depth · 2,373 m vertical
- 109
- m water depth
- Feb 22, 2009
- entered · completed May 13, 2009
- Basement
- at total depth · Pre-Devonian
- 97.2
- m of core in 3 cores
- 90
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED MAY 13, 2011
On file for this wellbore
What the Directorate holds from this wellbore. Each opens the section that lists it.
Drilling
- Drilling facility
- WEST EPSILON · Jack-up 3 legs
- Drilling days
- 81
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 49.2 m
- Maximum inclination
- 2.79999995°
- Drilling permit
- 1227-L
- Licensing round
- NST2000
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 58.81409° N, 2.36974° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Undefined Gp · Jurassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 16/2-5 was drilled on the Ragnarock III prospect on the Utsira High in the North Sea. The primary objective of the well was to prove the presence of hydrocarbons in the pre-BCU interval and establish the composition and age of the sediments. The secondary target was the chalk in the Ekofisk and Tor Formations of Late Cretaceous age. The presence of hydrocarbons in these formations at the well location was possible, but not expected.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 16/2-5 was spudded with the jack-up installation West Epsilon on 22 February 2009 and drilled to TD at 2373 m in pre-Devonian Basement. After drilling the 36" hole to 288 m a 9 7/8" pilot hole was drilled to 513 m to check for shallow gas. No shallow gas or shallow water flow was observed. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 519 m, with KCl/polymer/glycol mud from 519 m to 1747 m, and with KCl/polymer/glycol low-sulphate mud from 1747 m to TD.
The well penetrated rocks of Quaternary, Tertiary and Cretaceous age, it then penetrated Graben Fill before TD in Basement. Base Cretaceous/top Graben Fill was encountered at 1884 m. A total thickness of 458 m of Graben Fill consisting of coarse, clastic sediments was penetrated and 3 cores were cut from 1894 to 1994 m. Due to lack of fossils no reliable dating was obtained for the Graben Fill. The Graben Fill was gas/condensate filled from top of the reservoir and down to 1902 m. High quality gas condensate samples were acquired by use of wire line sampling tools. A water sample was acquired at 1935 m and oil was scanned at 1916 m MD. An interval with oil was confirmed also by sampling at 1921.5 m, but due to poor pressure measurements in this interval the OWC was only tentatively set at 1917 m base
Around this wellbore
This wellbore on Sodir FactPages → · Press release →
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.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/norway/wells/6042, documented in the API reference.