NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 9285
7322/6-1 S
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Shows · Equinor Energy AS · PL 722
7322/6-1 S is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by Equinor Energy AS, entered Apr 9, 2021, to 3,850 m in the Ørn Fm.
- 3,850
- m total depth · 3,583 m vertical
- 439
- m water depth
- Apr 9, 2021
- entered · completed May 28, 2021
- Ørn Fm
- at total depth · Late Carboniferous
- 118.1
- m of core in 2 cores
- —
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED FEB 28, 2022
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- DEEPSEA NORDKAPP · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 50
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 32.7 m
- Maximum inclination
- 38.70000076°
- Drilling permit
- 1856-L
- Licensing round
- 22
- Plugged and abandoned
- May 28, 2021
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 73.57769° N, 22.91802° E
Well history
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General
Well 7322/6-1 S was drilled to test the Shenzhou prospect on the south-western part of the Bjarmeland Platform in the Barents Sea. The main objectives were to prove petroleum in Snadd Formation Carnian and Ladinian sandstones, and in Late Carboniferous to Early Permian carbonate build-ups in the rn Formation.
Operations and results
An 8 1/2 pilot hoe was drilled to 713 m to check for possible shallow gas in the St and Snadd formations, which were planned to be drilled riser-less. No shallow gas or water flow was encountered.
Wildcat well 7322/6-1 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Deepsea Nordkapp on 9 April 2021 and drilled to TD at 3850 m (3583 m TVD) in Late Carboniferous carbonates in the rn Formation. Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 525 m and with KCL/Polymer/GEM mud from 525 m to TD.
Well 7322/6-1 S encountered two sandstone intervals in the Snadd Formation.
An intra-Carnian channel sandstone was identified at 1634 m and is about 35 m thick. Side-wall cores and the conventional core from this section had good shows with both direct and cut fluorescence and hydrocarbon odour starting above this sandstone at 1629 to 1715 m below this sandstone. The channel sandstone is calcareous cemented in the top and silica cemented in the base, while pressure data proved tight to low mobility. An intra-Ladinian deltaic sandstone was identified at 1816 m with ca 20 m gross thickness. This sandstone was tight with no shows. A deeper Ladinian sandstone had weak shows between 1956 to 1964 m.
The rn Forma
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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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