NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8070
7120/1-5
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Shows · Lundin Norway AS · PL 492
7120/1-5 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by Lundin Norway AS, entered Mar 2, 2017, to 2,527 m in the Røye Fm.
Discovery 7120/1-3 (Gohta) · On the map →
- 2,527
- m total depth · 2,527 m vertical
- 344
- m water depth
- Mar 2, 2017
- entered · completed May 7, 2017
- Røye Fm
- at total depth · Permian
- 151.6
- m of core in 7 cores
- 97
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED MAY 7, 2019
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- LEIV EIRIKSSON · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 66
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 2°
- Drilling permit
- 1644-L
- Licensing round
- TFO2007
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 71.93778° N, 20.24949° E
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 7120/1-5 was drilled as an appraisal well on the Gotha discovery in the southern part of the Loppa High in the Barents Sea. The objectives were to test the distribution and quality of the Permo-Triassic conglomerate, test the quality of the Permian reservoir, to reduce the uncertainty of the time-depth conversion and to provide information relating to additional prospectivity in the southern Loppa High area. Planned TD was 2920 m.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 7120/1-5 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Leiv Eiriksson on 2 March 2017 and drilled to TD at 2527 m in the Late Permian Røye Formation. After coring in the 8 ½" section the rate of penetration was very slow, and since the well proved only shows and no moveable hydrocarbons at Gotha reservoir level TD was set earlier than planned. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 662 m and with Performadril water-based mud from 662 m to TD.
A 285 metres gross sequence of Permian age spiculitic carbonates with poor reservoir quality was penetrated from 2241.5 m to TD. The Permo-Triassic conglomerate was absent. No pressure gradients could be established due to poor reservoir quality and/or wellbore damage resulting in seal failure. Minor oil shows were observed in siltstones and sandstones of the upper Snadd Formation in the interval from 885 to 955 m. Th
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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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