NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8203
7220/6-3
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Shows · Lundin Norway AS · PL 609
7220/6-3 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by Lundin Norway AS, entered Sep 1, 2017, to 1,300 m in the Falk Fm.
- 1,300
- m total depth · 1,300 m vertical
- 425
- m water depth
- Sep 1, 2017
- entered · completed Oct 5, 2017
- Falk Fm
- at total depth · Carboniferous
- 109.6
- m of core in 4 cores
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- LEIV EIRIKSSON · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 35
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 25 m
- Maximum inclination
- 2.29999995°
- Drilling permit
- 1660-L
- Licensing round
- 21
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 72.72809° N, 20.84851° E
Well history
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General
Well 7220/6-3 was drilled to test the Børselv prospect on the western side of the Loppa High in the Barents Sea. The primary objective was to test the reservoir properties and hydrocarbon potential in the carbonates of the Ørn Formation. TD was planned at 1300 m, 50 m below the Ørn Formation or 50 m into Basement, whichever came first.
Operations and results
Wildcat well 7220/6-3 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Leiv Eiriksson on 1 September 2017 and drilled to TD at 1300 m in the Late Carboniferous Falk Formation. Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 507 m, with KCl-GEM-polymer water-based mud from 504 to 586 m and with Performadril water-based mud from 586 m to TD.
The well encountered a 380 m thick sequence of Gipsdalen Group carbonates with medium to poor reservoir quality. The reservoir was water bearing with shows. Above the Ørn Formation the first oil show was in a single cuttings sample at 560 m. This had direct fluorescence, cut fluorescence and residue fluorescence. Weak shows were described on cuttings, sidewall cores and conventional cores from 733 to 757 m. Within the Ørn Formation the cored intervals 795 to 810 m, 817 to 839 m, and 858 to 864 m had good oil shows, generally described with
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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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