NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 8951
31/5-7
Exploration · Wildcat-ccs · Plugged · Water · Northern Lights JV DA · PL EL001
31/5-7 is a wildcat-ccs exploration wellbore in the North Sea, drilled by Northern Lights JV DA, entered Dec 2, 2019, to 2,915 m in the Statfjord Gp.
- 2,915
- m total depth · 2,914.9 m vertical
- 307
- m water depth
- Dec 2, 2019
- entered · completed Mar 6, 2020
- Statfjord Gp
- at total depth · Early Jurassic
- 122.6
- m of core in 3 cores
- 115
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED SEP 2, 2026 · RELEASED MAR 6, 2020
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- WEST HERCULES · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 97
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 31 m
- Maximum inclination
- 1.70000005°
- Drilling permit
- 1799-L
- Licensing round
- —
- Plugged and abandoned
- Sep 30, 2022
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 60.57643° N, 3.44337° E
Well history
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General
Well 31/5-7 was drilled to test the Northern Light Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) prospect between the Troll and Brage fields on the Horda Platform in the North Sea. The well is the first CCS well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The overall objective of the well was to investigate whether reservoir rocks in the Early Jurassic are suitable for storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). Specific aims were:
· Confirm the ability to inject a minimum of 0.8 Mt/yr CO2.
· Confirm Johansen and Cook Formations sandstones presence and with a sufficient reservoir quality for large scale injection purpose
· Confirm Drake Formation sealing potential.
· Additional well objectives were to collect data to meet requirements on overburden management and implementation of data into geomechanical models and leakage risk assessment.
Operations and results
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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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