NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 858
34/10-26
Exploration · Appraisal · P&A · Dry · Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s · Gullfaks · PL 050
34/10-26 is an appraisal exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s, entered Oct 18, 1985, to 600 m in the Nordland Gp.
Discovery 34/10-1 Gullfaks · On the map →
- 600
- m total depth · 600 m vertical
- 219
- m water depth
- Oct 18, 1985
- entered · completed Oct 26, 1985
- Nordland Gp
- at total depth · Pliocene
- —
- m of core
- 26
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED MAR 27, 2026 · RELEASED OCT 26, 1987
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- DEEPSEA BERGEN decom · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 9
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 23 m
- Maximum inclination
- 3.29999995°
- Drilling permit
- 489-L
- Licensing round
- Awarded additionally to round 3
- Plugged and abandoned
- —
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 61.21664° N, 2.27327° E
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 34/10-26 was drilled to test possible shallow gas accumulation in sandstones at the location for the Gullfaks C platform. The targets were several sand layers of Pliocene age. Gas had been indicated on seismic anomalies and logs from other wells in the same field.
Operations and results
Well 34/10 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Bergen on 18 October 1985 and drilled to TD at 600 m in Pliocene sediments in the Nordland Group. A problem with running the 13 3/8" casing caused a day delay, otherwise no significant problem was encountered in the operations. The well was drilled with water based mud.
Top Pliocene was penetrated between 300 and 317 m. A layer of sandy claystone that appeared to contain traces of gas was penetrated from 343 m to 350 m. Below this level the well penetrated two water bearing sand layers without any gas at 355.5 m to 356.5 m and 358.5 m to 360 m.
No cores were cut and no wire line fluid samples were taken. A full set of conventional logs where run. Cuttings samples were taken every 5 m from 320 m to TD.
The well was permanently abandoned on 26 October 1985 4.
Testing
No drill stem test was performed.
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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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