NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8124
16/1-27
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · Lundin Norway AS · Edvard Grieg · PL 338
16/1-27 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Lundin Norway AS, entered Mar 1, 2017, to 2,258 m in the Basement.
Discovery 16/1-8 Edvard Grieg · On the map →
- 2,258
- m total depth · 2,258 m vertical
- 108
- m water depth
- Mar 1, 2017
- entered · completed Apr 11, 2017
- Basement
- at total depth
- 52.8
- m of core in 3 cores
- 95
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED APR 11, 2019
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- ISLAND INNOVATOR · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 42
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 30 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.29999995°
- Drilling permit
- 1652-L
- Licensing round
- TFO2004
- Plugged and abandoned
- Apr 11, 2017
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 58.83836° N, 2.19911° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Åsgard Fm · Cretaceous
- Hydrocarbons in
- Skagerrak Fm · Triassic
Well history
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General
Well 16/1-27 was drilled on the Edvard Greg Field on the Utsira High in the North Sea. It was drilled as an appraisal well to verify top reservoir and sand content in the western part of the field.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 16/1-27 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Island Innovator on 1 March 2017 and drilled to TD at 2258 m in Basement rock. Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 611 m and with Aquadril mud with 4% glycol from 611 m to TD.
Top reservoir, Åsgard Formation sandstone, was encountered at 1962 m, directly overlying Triassic Skagerrak Formation sandstone at 1968.35 m. The reservoir contained oil from top down to the OWC at 1978 m (1948 m TVD MSL), 9 meters deeper than the established FWL at 1939 m TVD MSL in the central Edvard Grieg area. Pressure data showed one oil gradient through the Cretaceous to Triassic sandstones, and two water gradients below the oil: one in communication with the oil gradient and one with 6 bar higher pressure in the lower conglomerates of the Skagerrak Formation, below a shaly layer around 2150 m.
Apart from shows in the reservoir section significant oil shows were recorded above reservoir level. First oil show
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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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