NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8239
7324/8-3
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Oil · OMV (Norge) AS · PL 537
7324/8-3 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by OMV (Norge) AS, entered Aug 16, 2017, to 805 m in the Fruholmen Fm.
Discovery 7324/8-1 (Wisting) · On the map →
- 805
- m total depth · 805 m vertical
- 396
- m water depth
- Aug 16, 2017
- entered · completed Sep 17, 2017
- Fruholmen Fm
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- 111.5
- m of core in 3 cores
- 20
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED SEP 17, 2019
On file for this wellbore
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- ISLAND INNOVATOR · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 33
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 30 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.10000002°
- Drilling permit
- 1668-L
- Licensing round
- 20
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 73.43444° N, 24.38935° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Stø Fm · Middle Jurassic
- Hydrocarbons in
- Fruholmen Fm · Late Triassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
The 7324/8-3, Wisting Central III, is an appraisal well in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea. The objectives of the well were to perform XLOT in the Fuglen Formation overburden and in the Stø Formation reservoir followed by an injectivity test in the Stø Formation. In addition, there was planned a core from the Fuglen Formation overburden, including the transition zone into Stø Formation, to the bottom of the reservoir in the Fruholmen Formation. Oil and water samples were to be recovered and logs run from the 30" shoe to TD.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 7324/8-3 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Island Innovator on 16 August 2017 and drilled to TD at 805 m in the Late Triassic Fruholmen Formation. Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis sweeps down to 492 m and with Glydril water-based mud from 492 m to TD.
After having drilled the main bore, a pilot hole was drilled to 526.0 m. The purpose of the pilot hole was to obtain sonic data from the top hole section for seismic calibration.
The Fuglen Formation was penetrated at 626 m and is 39 m thick in the well. Top Wisting reservoir was encountered at 665 m. The reservoir consists of 19 m Stø sandstone, 4 m Nordmela sandstone and 72 m of intercalated claystones and san
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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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