NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8508
6608/10-18 B
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Dry · Equinor Energy AS · Verdande · PL 128 D
6608/10-18 B is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the Norwegian Sea, drilled by Equinor Energy AS, entered Sep 16, 2018, to 3,585 m in the Lange Fm.
Discovery 6608/10-17 S Verdande · On the map →
- 3,585
- m total depth · 3,289 m vertical
- 373
- m water depth
- Sep 16, 2018
- entered · completed Oct 3, 2018
- Lange Fm
- at total depth · Early Cretaceous
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- m of core
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED NOV 4, 2026 · RELEASED OCT 3, 2020
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- SONGA ENCOURAGE · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 18
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 32 m
- Maximum inclination
- 36.70000076°
- Drilling permit
- 1716-L
- Licensing round
- TFO2015
- Plugged and abandoned
- Oct 3, 2018
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 66.10265° N, 8.07309° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Lange Fm · Early Cretaceous
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 6608/10-18 B is a geological side-track to well 6608/10-18 on the Revfallet Fault Complex in the Norwegian Sea. It was drilled to appraise the 6608/10-17 S Cape Vulture Discovery. The Cape Vulture Discovery consists of three Intra-Lange Formation sands, named the Cape Vulture Upper, Main, and Lower. The primary objective for 6608/10-18 B was to test the hydrocarbon potential and contacts in the Cape Vulture Main and Lower in a position down-flanks of well 6608/10-18.
Operations and results
Appraisal well 6608/10-18 B was kicked off at 1353 m in mainwell 6608/10-18 on 16 September 2018. It was drilled with the semi-submersible installation Songa Encourage to TD at 3585 m (3289 m TVD) in the Early Cretaceous Lange Formation. Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with Enviromul oil-based mud from kick-off to TD.
Cape Vulture Main was penetrated from 3384 to 3429 m (3130 to 3163 m TVD), and Cape Vulture Lower from 3454 to 3459 m (3183 to 3187 m TVD). Both reservoirs were waterfilled. Combined pressure data from all three Cape Vulture appraisal wells indicated a hydrocarbon-water contact at ca 3100 m TVD MSL in Cape Vulture Main. Oil shows (direct and cut fluorescence) were described in Cape Vulture main and in thin sandstones in the interval 3525 m to TD.
No cores were cut. MDT fluid samples were taken at 3399.8 m and 3455.1 m. Water was sampled at both depths.
The well was permanently abandoned on 3 October 2018 as a dry well.
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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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