NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 7543
7125/4-3
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Dry · Statoil Petroleum AS · PL 393 B
7125/4-3 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by Statoil Petroleum AS, entered Aug 10, 2014, to 1,033 m in the Hekkingen Fm.
- 1,033
- m total depth · 1,033 m vertical
- 294
- m water depth
- Aug 10, 2014
- entered · completed Sep 7, 2014
- Hekkingen Fm
- at total depth · Late Jurassic
- —
- m of core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED SEP 7, 2016
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- TRANSOCEAN SPITSBERGEN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 13
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 40 m
- Maximum inclination
- 0.89999998°
- Drilling permit
- 1538-L
- Licensing round
- Awarded additionally to round 19
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 71.51567° N, 25.21572° E
Well history
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General
Well 7125/4-3 was drilled on the Ensis prospect about four kilometres south of the 7125/4-1 oil and gas discovery on the Måsøy Fault Complex in the Barents Sea. The primary objective was to prove petroleum in Early Cretaceous reservoir rocks (intra-Knurr formation).
Operations and results
Wildcat well 7125/4-3 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Transocean Spitsbergen on 10 August 2014 and drilled to TD at 1033 m in the Hekkingen Formation. No significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled, logged, plugged and abandoned in a total of 18 days. It was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 593 m, with KCl/GEM/polymer mud from 593 m to 863 m, and with Low-sulphate KCl/GEM/polymer mud from 863 m to TD.
The well was dry. Approximately 35 m of reservoir rocks of poor quality was penetrated in the Knurr Formation.
No cores were cut. A dry case wireline logging program was conducted. No fluid samples were taken.
The well was permanently abandoned on 7 September 2014 as a dry well.
Testing
No drill stem test was performed.
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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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