NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 7527
7324/9-1
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Gas · Statoil Petroleum AS · PL 614
7324/9-1 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by Statoil Petroleum AS, entered Jul 22, 2014, to 1,100 m in the Snadd Fm.
Discovery 7324/9-1 (Mercury) · On the map →
- 1,100
- m total depth · 1,100 m vertical
- 414
- m water depth
- Jul 22, 2014
- entered · completed Aug 7, 2014
- Snadd Fm
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- 26.9
- m of core in 1 core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED AUG 7, 2016
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- TRANSOCEAN SPITSBERGEN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 11
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 40 m
- Maximum inclination
- 0°
- Drilling permit
- 1531-L
- Licensing round
- 21
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 73.32480° N, 24.84007° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Stø Fm · Middle Jurassic
Well history
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General
Well 7324/9-1 was drilled to test the Mercury prospect on the Mercurius High west of the Hoop Fault Complex in the Barents Sea. The primary objective was to prove the presence of hydrocarbons in the Kapp Toscana Group. The secondary objective was to test the presence of hydrocarbons in the Snadd Formation. The well was also a test of one of the main Controlled Source ElectroMagnetic (CSEM) anomalies and its relation to the presence of hydrocarbons
Operations and results
Wildcat well 7324/9-1 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Transocean Spitsbergen on 22 July 2014 and drilled to TD at 1100 m in the Late Triassic Snadd Formation. No significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with seawater and bentonite sweeps down to 508 m and with KCL polymer / GEM WBM from 508 m to TD.
Top of the primary target Kapp Toscana Group was encountered at 696 m. A 10 m column of very dry gas was proven in the Stø Formation. The hydrocarbon/water contact is placed at 706 m based on MDT pressure gradients and resistivity logs. The gas column is substantiated by the CSEM shut-off and the brightest seismic amplitude shut-off levels. No hydrocarbons were proven in the Snadd Formation.
One core was cut from top Stø reservoir at 696.5 m to 723.5 m in the Fruholmen Formation. MDT fluid samples were taken at 699.9 m (gas), 706.7 (filtrate and water), and 709.9 m (water).
The well was permanently abandoned on 7 August 2014 as a technical gas discovery.
Testing
No drill stem test
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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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