NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 7651
6706/12-2
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil/gas · Statoil Petroleum AS · Aasta Hansteen · PL 218
6706/12-2 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by Statoil Petroleum AS, entered Feb 20, 2015, to 2,754 m in the Nise Fm.
Discovery 6706/12-2 (Snefrid Nord) · On the map →
- 2,754
- m total depth · 2,754 m vertical
- 1,312
- m water depth
- Feb 20, 2015
- entered · completed Mar 21, 2015
- Nise Fm
- at total depth · Late Cretaceous
- 33.8
- m of core in 1 core
- 62
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED MAR 21, 2017
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- TRANSOCEAN SPITSBERGEN · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 30
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 40 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1°
- Drilling permit
- 1561-L
- Licensing round
- 15
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 67.08573° N, 6.86685° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Nise Fm · Late Cretaceous
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 6706/12-2 was drilled to test the Snefrid Nord prospect on the Nyk High in the Norwegian Sea. The primary objective was to prove movable hydrocarbons (gas) in the Nise Formation.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 6706/12-2 was spudded with the semi-submersible Transocean Spitsbergen on 20 February 2015 and drilled to TD at 2754 m in the Late Cretaceous Nise Formation. No significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled, logged, plugged and abandoned in 29 days. It was drilled with Seawater and hi-vis pills down to 1950 m and with Glydril mud from 1950 m to TD.
The well penetrated Tertiary claystones and limestones, as well as Cretaceous claystones, limestones and sandstones. Top of the Middle Campanian Nise Reservoir was encountered at 2492.6 m. A gas column of 103.4 m and an oil column of 6 m was encountered within the Nise Formation. The oil is biodegraded. A distinct flatspot that crosses the structure is visible in the prospect, and is proven to be a result of the hydrocarbon-water contact.
The ROV measured the temperature at seabed to -0.3°C. One core was cut from 2504 m to 2537.86 m in the Nise Formation reservoir sandstone. MDT fluid samples were taken at 2541 m (gas), 2599 m (oil) and 2650 m (water).
The well was permanently abandoned on 21 March 2015 as a gas and oil discovery.
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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