NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8568
7324/3-1
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Gas · Equinor Energy AS · PL 615
7324/3-1 is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by Equinor Energy AS, entered Oct 15, 2018, to 1,709 m in the Snadd Fm.
Discovery 7324/3-1 (Intrepid Eagle) · On the map →
- 1,709
- m total depth · 1,709 m vertical
- 452
- m water depth
- Oct 15, 2018
- entered · completed Nov 21, 2018
- Snadd Fm
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- 112
- m of core in 2 cores
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED JUL 1, 2020
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- WEST HERCULES · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 38
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 31 m
- Maximum inclination
- 0°
- Drilling permit
- 1728-L
- Licensing round
- 21
- Plugged and abandoned
- Nov 21, 2018
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 73.95761° N, 24.68468° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Snadd Fm · Late Triassic
- Hydrocarbons in
- Snadd Fm · Middle Triassic
- Hydrocarbons in
- Stø Fm · Middle Jurassic
Well history
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General
Well 7324/3-1 was drilled to test the Intrepid Eagle structure on the Bjarmeland Platform, about 13 km west of the 7325/1-1 Atlantis discovery in the Barents Sea. The objective was to test the hydrocarbon potential and phase in channelized sandstones at two levels within the Snadd Formation. The Primary target was the Carnian age Intrepid Eagle Main channel. The secondary target was the deeper-seated Atlantis channel, also of Triassic age, and in which a gas down-to situation was found in well 7325/1-1 (Atlantis).
Operations and results
Wildcat well 7324/3-1 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation West Hercules on 15 October 2018 and drilled to 1709 m in the Late Triassic Snadd Formation. Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 839 m and with KCl/polymer/GEM mud from 839 m to TD.
A Stø Formation sand package was penetrated from 877 to 909 m and proved to be water bearing as expected. The primary target Intrepid Eagle Main channel sand of Carnian age was encountered at 1493 m. It was gas bearing with gas-water contact was at 1518.4 m. The secondary target Atlantis channel was encountered at 1642 m. It was gas-bearing down to a gas-water contact at 1666 m. The Atlantis channel is dated to the Middle Triassic (Ladinian). The reservoir quality in primary and secondary targets is moderate. The porosity is generally good (22% in average in Intrepid-Eagle Main, 17% in average in Atlantis). However, the permeability is limited (around 100 mD in the best parts of Intrepid-Eagle Main, 30-40 mD in the best parts of Atlantis).
Oil shows in the form of fluorescence and cut were recorded almost throughout the we
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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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