7324/7-2 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by OMV (Norge) AS, entered Apr 13, 2014, to 1,730 m in the Snadd Fm.
Discovery 7324/7-2 (Hanssen) · On the map →
- 1,730
- m total depth · 1,719 m vertical
- 417.5
- m water depth
- Apr 13, 2014
- entered · completed Jul 6, 2014
- Snadd Fm
- at total depth · Middle Triassic
- 78.4
- m of core in 6 cores
- 51
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED JUL 6, 2016
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- TRANSOCEAN BARENTS · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 85
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 40 m
- Maximum inclination
- 14.30000019°
- Drilling permit
- 1515-L
- Licensing round
- 20
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 73.49086° N, 24.23404° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Stø Fm · Middle Jurassic
Well history
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General
Well 7324/7-2 was drilled to test the Hanssen prospect in the Hoop Fault Complex in the Barents Sea. The primary objective of well 7324/7-2 was to prove hydrocarbons in the Realgrunnen Subgroup. In addition, the well targeted the deeper Snadd Formation.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 7324/7-2 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Transocean Barents on 13 April 2014 and drilled to TD at 1730 m (1719 m TVD) in the Middle Triassic Snadd Formation. After drilling the top hole to 576 m, the BOP could not be set according to schedule due to damaged Lower Marine Riser Package connector. Attempts to repair this and eventually mobilising a new LMRP connector from shore led to 414.5 hrs NPT. The target tolerance for the Early Carnian Snadd sand was revised from the drilling program. Due to this revision, a steerable drilling system was needed below 1200 m (the 6" hole) for hitting the well path inside the target box. No significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 521 m and with Glydril mud from 521 m to TD.
The primary target Stø Formation was encountered at 712 m and was oil bearing down to the oil-water contact, defined at 732.2 m (731.95 m TVD) from fluid scanning. In the secondary target, the Snadd formation, oil shows were described and gas was found but in poor reservoir rocks, and no gas gradient was established.
Six cores were cut in the well. The two first, 577.5 to 580.9 m in the Kolmule Formation and 672 to 678 m in the Fuglen Formation, were shale cores for geomechanical purposes. Cores 3 to 6 were cut in succession from 710 m in Fuglen
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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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