16/1-14 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Lundin Norway AS, entered Sep 26, 2010, to 2,550 m in the Skagerrak Fm.
Discovery 16/1-14 (Apollo) · On the map →
- 2,550
- m total depth · 2,550 m vertical
- 110
- m water depth
- Sep 26, 2010
- entered · completed Nov 30, 2010
- Skagerrak Fm
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- 94
- m of core in 3 cores
- 99
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED NOV 30, 2012
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- TRANSOCEAN WINNER · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 66
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 26 m
- Maximum inclination
- 10°
- Drilling permit
- 1315-L
- Licensing round
- TFO2004
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 58.88591° N, 2.20291° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Intra Balder Fm Ss · Eocene
- Hydrocarbons in
- Heimdal Fm · Paleocene
- Hydrocarbons in
- Intra Åsgard Fm Ss · Early Cretaceous
Well history
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General
Well 16/1-14 was drilled to explore the Jurassic Apollo Prospect situated south of the Draupne Discovery and down flank of the Luno Discovery. The well is located on the eastern margin of the South Viking Graben in the North Sea. The structure is situated between eastern part of the Gudrun Terrace and the western flank of the Utsira High. The primary objective was to test the Vestland Group, Hugin Formation sands and to verify communication with the 16/1-9 Draupne Discovery. A thickening and improving reservoir quality in the Hugin Formation, when compared to well 16/1-9 was expected towards the Apollo. Prospect.
Operations and results
Well 16/1-14 was drilled with the semi-submersible installation Transocean Winner. First a 9 7/8" pilot hole was drilled to 606 m. This hole was abandoned due to shallow gas and it was named 16/1-U-6. Wildcat well 16/1-14 was spudded ca 15 m west of 16/1-U-6 on 26 September 2010 and drilled to TD at 2550 m in Late Triassic sediments of the Skagerrak Formation. As the Cretaceous to Eocene hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs were insufficiently logged and cored a sidetrack was decided. The 16/1-14 T2 sidetrack was made through a window in the 9 5/8" casing at 1800 m. The sidetrack was drilled to TD at 2295 m (2293.4 m TVD) in the Late Jurassic Draupne Formation. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 378 m and with Glydril mud from 378 m to TD in both well tracks.
The primary objective of the well was not realised because the Hugin Formation was found to be dry. However, well 16/1-14 encountered oil in three levels, the Balder Formation, the Heimdal Formation and one in the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian to Valangian) Åsga
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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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