NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 6888
16/2-13 S
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Lundin Norway AS · Johan Sverdrup · PL 501
16/2-13 S is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Lundin Norway AS, entered Jul 24, 2012, to 2,090 m in the No Group Defined.
Discovery 16/2-6 Johan Sverdrup · On the map →
- 2,090
- m total depth · 2,086 m vertical
- 116
- m water depth
- Jul 24, 2012
- entered · completed Aug 30, 2012
- No Group Defined
- at total depth · Pre-Permian
- 53.8
- m of core in 2 cores
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED AUG 30, 2014
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- TRANSOCEAN ARCTIC · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 36
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 24 m
- Maximum inclination
- 13.5°
- Drilling permit
- 1404-L
- Licensing round
- TFO2008
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 58.83291° N, 2.65287° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Intra Draupne Fm Ss · Late Jurassic
- Hydrocarbons in
- Hugin Fm · Middle Jurassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 16/2-13 S was drilled on the Johan Sverdrup discovery on the Utsira High in the North Sea, 6.7 km northeast of well 16/2-8 and 2.4 km north-east of well 16/2-6. The main objectives were to confirm an oil saturated Upper Jurassic Draupne sand thickness of approximately 30 meter in the northeastern part of Johan Sverdrup; to establish the Johan Sverdrup pressure system and oil-water-contact in this area; and to improve the understanding of Draupne sand facies changes and lateral Draupne shale thickness variations.
Operations and results
The 16/2‐13 (later renamed as 16/2‐U‐13) well was drilled according to the well design with the semi-submersible installation Transocean Arctic. A 9 7/8” pilot hole was drilled from the seabed and encountered shallow gas at 382 m. The hole was then plugged back with gas tight cement and the rig was moved 45 m SW. The appraisal well 16/2‐13 S was then re‐spudded on 24 July 2012 and a new 9 7/8” pilot hole was drilled to 725 m without seeing shallow gas. Drilling continued with 36”, 26”, 12 ¼” and 8 ½” hole sections and reached TD at 2090 m (2085.7 m TVD) in Pre-Permian fractured granite and quartzite rock. Seawater and high viscosity pill was used as drilling fluid on the riserless sections down to 725 m, while Performadril water based mud was used from 725 m To TD.</
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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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