NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8029
6407/7-9 S
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil/gas/condensate · Statoil Petroleum AS · PL 107
6407/7-9 S is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by Statoil Petroleum AS, entered Aug 15, 2016, to 4,143 m in the Åre Fm.
Discovery 6407/7-9 S (Njord Nordflanken) · On the map →
- 4,143
- m total depth · 4,134 m vertical
- 323
- m water depth
- Aug 15, 2016
- entered · completed Sep 20, 2016
- Åre Fm
- at total depth · Early Jurassic
- 163.6
- m of core in 2 cores
- 153
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED JUN 19, 2026 · RELEASED SEP 20, 2018
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- SONGA DELTA · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 36
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 29 m
- Maximum inclination
- 9.69999981°
- Drilling permit
- 1636-L
- Licensing round
- 9
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 64.31646° N, 7.15678° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Tilje Fm · Early Jurassic
- Hydrocarbons in
- Ile Fm · Middle Jurassic
- Hydrocarbons in
- Lange Fm · Cretaceous
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 6407/7-9 S was drilled to test the Njord North Flank 2 prospect about 6 km north of the producing Njord Field in the Norwegian Sea. The primary objective was to prove hydrocarbon potential in the Early-Middle Jurassic Tilje and Ile formations. The secondary objective was to test the hydrocarbon potential in the Åre Formation.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 6407/7-9 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Songa Delta on 15 August 2016 and drilled to TD at 4143 m (4134 m TVD) m in the Early Jurassic Åre Formation. Drilling to TD proceeded without significant problems, but during P&A and preparing for sidetracking pulling of the 9 5/8" casing hanger caused severe problems and four days NPT. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 1175 m and with XP07 oil based mud from 1175 m to TD.
Top of the primary reservoir targets, the Ile Formation was reached at 3623 m (3614.8 m TVD). A 102-metre oil column was encountered in the Ile formation, and a 157-metre gas/condensate column in the Tilje Formation. The reservoir properties in both reservoirs are poor to moderate. The well did not encounter a reservoir in the Åre formation. A few thin sand layers were encountered in the Early Cretaceous Lange formation, some with petroleum, but with poor reservoir properties. An oil-water contact in the Ile Formation at 3727 m (3719 m TVD) was established based on logs and sampling. Otherwise, all hydrocarbon columns were in oil down-to situations. No shows were observed outside of the hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs
Two cores were cut. Ile was cored from 3636 to 3690 m with 100% recovery. Tilje was cored from 3901 to 4010 m with 100% recovery. MDT flu
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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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