7324/8-1 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by OMV (Norge) AS, entered Aug 10, 2013, to 930 m in the Snadd Fm.
Discovery 7324/8-1 (Wisting) · On the map →
- 930
- m total depth · 930 m vertical
- 398
- m water depth
- Aug 10, 2013
- entered · completed Sep 17, 2013
- Snadd Fm
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- 47.1
- m of core in 3 cores
- 29
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED SEP 17, 2015
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- LEIV EIRIKSSON · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 39
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.60000002°
- Drilling permit
- 1462-L
- Licensing round
- 20
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 73.45172° N, 24.40428° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Stø Fm · Middle Jurassic
Well history
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General
Well 7324/8-1 was drilled on the Wisting Central prospect in the Barents Sea between the Hoop fault complex to the east and the Maud Basin to the west. The primary objective was to evaluate the Jurassic Realgrunnen Subgroup for hydrocarbons.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 7324/8-1 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Leiv Eiriksson on 10 August 2013 and drilled to TD at 930m in the late Triassic(Carnian age) Snadd Formation. A 9 7/8" pilot hole was drilled down to 641 m to check for shallow gas. No significant problem was encountered during drilling and logging, but after permanent plugging cutting of the casing proved problematic and caused some down time. The well was drilled with bentonite spud mud down to 492 m and with Glydril mud from 492 m to TD.
The top of the reservoir, Stø Formation was entered at 662 m, only 237 m below the seafloor and contained oil. The well is located down-flanks on the structure; hence, the upper part may have a gas-cap. Due to increased claystone content and decreased porosity/permeability at the end of the coring, the oil/water contact was not clearly defined. However, log data and pressure data suggests that the Stø and Fruholmen formations are in communication and share a common OWC at 708.3 m. Oil shows were described in a Fruholmen sandstone at 728 m and in Snadd sandstones at 775 m, 784 m and 808 m. No shows were described below this depth or above top Stø Formation.
Three consecutive cores were cut in the Realgrunnen Subgroup from 662 m to 710.35 m. The total core recovery for all three cores was 47.05 m (97.3%). The core-log depth shifts were found to be +0.75 m, +1.36 m, and +0.6 m for core number 1, 2, and 3
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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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