16/2-22 S

Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Statoil Petroleum AS · Johan Sverdrup · PL 265

16/2-22 S is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Statoil Petroleum AS, entered Jan 16, 2017, to 1,993 m in the Basement.

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1,993: m total depth · 1,982 m vertical
116: m water depth
Jan 16, 2017: entered · completed Jan 28, 2017
Basement: at total depth
16.5: m of core in 1 core
85: °C bottom-hole temperature

SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED JAN 28, 2019

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Drilling

Drilling facility: DEEPSEA ATLANTIC · Semisub steel
Drilling days: 13
Kelly bushing elevation: 30 m
Maximum inclination: 9.80000019°
Drilling permit: 1646-L
Licensing round: NST2000
Plugged and abandoned: Jan 29, 2017
Core samples available: Yes
Cuttings samples available: Yes
Position · ED50: 58.92597° N, 2.40922° E
Hydrocarbons in: Intra Draupne Fm Ss · Late Jurassic

Well history

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General

Well 16/2-22 S was drilled to appraise the Northern outline of the Johan Sverdrup Field on the Utsira High in the North Sea. The Johan Sverdrup reservoir range from Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous in age, with Intra Draupne Formation sandstone as the main unit. The primary objective was to test The Intra-Draupne Formation sandstone and investigate pressure communication.

Operations and results

Appraisal well 16/2-22 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Atlantic on 16 January 2017 and drilled to TD at 1993 m (1982 m TVD) m in granitic basement. Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 1214 m and with Carbosea oil-based mud from 1214 m to TD.

The Intra Draupne Formation reservoir was penetrated from 1934.5 to 1950 m. The Formation consists of muddy spiculites and is directly overlying basement. It is oil bearing from top to base. No shows were observed in the well outside of the oil-bearing reservoir. Pressure data over the reservoir proved an oil gradient that match the one in surrounding wells. The reservoir pressure is about 0.4 bar lower pressure compared to previously drilled well 16/2-12. This difference is in line with the rate of pressure depletion in the area.

One core was cut from 1937 to 1953 m in the Intra Draupne Formation sandstone and Basement with 100% recovery. Two RCX fluid samples were taken. Oil was sampled at 1943.4 m (1933.4 m TVD) and water at 1950 m (1939.9 m TVD).

The well was permanently abandoned on 28 January 2017 as an oil appraisal.

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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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