NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 6226
16/1-8 R
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil · Lundin Norway AS · Edvard Grieg · PL 338
16/1-8 R is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Lundin Norway AS, entered Oct 2, 2009, to 2,201 m in the No Group Defined.
Discovery 16/1-8 Edvard Grieg · On the map →
- 2,201
- m total depth · 2,201 m vertical
- 108
- m water depth
- Oct 2, 2009
- entered · completed Oct 10, 2009
- No Group Defined
- at total depth · Triassic
- —
- m of core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED OCT 10, 2011
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- TRANSOCEAN WINNER · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 9
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 26 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.70000005°
- Drilling permit
- 1152-L2
- Licensing round
- TFO2004
- Plugged and abandoned
- Oct 10, 2009
- Core samples available
- No
- Cuttings samples available
- No
- Position · ED50
- 58.83573° N, 2.23510° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- No Group Defined · Jurassic
Well history
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General
Well 16/1-8 R is a re-entry of well 16/1-8, which made the Luno discover in Jurassic sandstone and conglomerate. The purpose of the re-entry was testing and plugging of the bore hole.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 16/1-8 R was re-entered with the semi-submersible installation Transocean Winner on 2 October 2009.
No cores were cut and no wire line fluid samples were taken.
After testing the well was permanently abandoned on 10 October.
Testing
The well was perforated and tested in two intervals with flow rate up to approximately 3547 barrels of oil per day (564 Sm3/day) through a one inch (40/64") choke.
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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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