NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 6821
6201/11-3
Exploration · Wildcat · Suspended · Dry · Lundin Norway AS · PL 519
6201/11-3 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by Lundin Norway AS, entered May 8, 2012, to 2,120 m in the Jorsalfare Fm.
- 2,120
- m total depth · 2,120 m vertical
- 382.5
- m water depth
- May 8, 2012
- entered · completed Jun 16, 2012
- Jorsalfare Fm
- at total depth · Paleocene
- —
- m of core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED JUN 16, 2014
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- BREDFORD DOLPHIN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 40
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.70000005°
- Drilling permit
- 1395-L
- Licensing round
- 20
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 62.04582° N, 1.50363° E
Well history
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General
Well 6201/11-3 was drilled on the Manet Ridge in the northernmost North Sea between the Magnus and Møre
Basins. The primary objective was to investigate the Albert prospect, a Late Cretaceous succession untested by the neighbouring well 6201/11-1, where Statoil found oil in the Triassic Lunde Formation in 1987. Paleocene and Triassic sandstones were secondary targets in 6201/11-3.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 6201/11-3 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Bredford Dolphin on 8 May 2012 and drilled to TD at 2120 m in the Late Cretaceous Jorsalfare Formation. A 9 7/8” pilot hole was drilled from below the 30” conductor to 836 m. Here a shallow water/gas flow occurred and the pilot hole was cemented back. A 20” casing was set above the problem zone and the BOP and riser installed prior to re-drilling the interval. Due to expiration of the Bredford Dolphin’s certification, the well was suspended at 2120. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 498 m, with KCl/Polymer/GEM mud from 498 m to 1372 m, and with Performadril/GEM mud from 1372 m to TD.
The Primary target was not reached in this well. The secondary target in Paleocene proved movable hydrocarbons in thin sandstones from 1938 to 1954 m in the Lista Formation. Weak oil shows were recorded intermittently in thin carbonate beds in the Hordaland Group from 1400 m to 1845 m and again in thin Intra Lista Formation sandstones from 1938 m to 2017 m.
No cores were cut in well 6201/11-3. An MDT oil sample was taken at 1941.3 m.
The well was suspended on 16 June as a technical oil discovery.
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