NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8065
6608/10-17 S
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil/gas · Statoil Petroleum AS · Verdande · PL 128
6608/10-17 S is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by Statoil Petroleum AS, entered Dec 4, 2016, to 3,323 m in the Spekk Fm.
Discovery 6608/10-17 S Verdande · On the map →
- 3,323
- m total depth · 3,294 m vertical
- 374
- m water depth
- Dec 4, 2016
- entered · completed Jan 31, 2017
- Spekk Fm
- at total depth · Early Cretaceous
- 81.2
- m of core in 1 core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED JAN 31, 2019
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- DEEPSEA BERGEN decom · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 59
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 23 m
- Maximum inclination
- 14.69999981°
- Drilling permit
- 1643-L
- Licensing round
- 10-B
- Plugged and abandoned
- Jan 31, 2017
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 66.07116° N, 8.06001° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Lange Fm · Cretaceous
- Hydrocarbons in
- Lange Fm · Cretaceous
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 6608/10-17 S was drilled to test the Cape Vulture prospects on the Revfallet Fault Complex, northwest of the Norne Field in the Norwegian Sea. The objective was to test the hydrocarbon potential in two turbiditic sandstones within the Early Cretaceous Lange Formation, called Cape Vulture Main and Cape Vulture Upper, respectively.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 6608/10-17 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Bergen on 4 December 2016 and drilled to TD at 3323 m (3294 m TVD) in Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) shales belonging to the Spekk Formation. While drilling the 8 ½" section and during plug P&A, 31.5 days (53% of total operations) was spent waiting on weather. Otherwise operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 1362 m and with XP-07 oil-based mud from 1362 m to TD.
The top of the Lange Formation was encountered at 2796 m (2767 m TVD), top Cape Vulture Upper at 2947 m (2918 m TVD), and top Cape Vulture Main at 2987 m (2959 m TVD). Both reservoirs contained hydrocarbons. In Cape Vulture Upper, there was an 8 m oil column, of which 5 m were in sandstone with moderate to good reservoir properties. In Cape Vulture Main, the well encountered a total oil column of about 5 m with an overlying gas column of about 13 m, of which 3 and 10 m, respectively, were in sandstone with moderate to g
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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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