NORWAY · WELLBORES · NPDID 9388
7122/6-3 S
Exploration · Wildcat · P&A · Oil/gas · Vår Energi AS · PL 901
7122/6-3 S is a wildcat exploration wellbore in the Barents Sea, drilled by Vår Energi AS, entered Sep 16, 2021, to 2,015 m in the Fruholmen Fm.
Discovery 7122/6-3 S (Rødhette) · On the map →
- 2,015
- m total depth · 2,004 m vertical
- 427
- m water depth
- Sep 16, 2021
- entered · completed Oct 10, 2021
- Fruholmen Fm
- at total depth · Late Triassic
- 27.6
- m of core in 2 cores
- 70
- °C bottom-hole temperature
SODIR FACTPAGES · RECORD UPDATED FEB 20, 2026 · RELEASED OCT 10, 2023
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Drilling
- Drilling facility
- SCARABEO 8 · Semisub steel
- Drilling days
- 25
- Kelly bushing elevation
- 34 m
- Maximum inclination
- 10.5°
- Drilling permit
- 1869-L
- Licensing round
- TFO2016
- Plugged and abandoned
- Oct 10, 2021
- Core samples available
- Yes
- Cuttings samples available
- Yes
- Position · ED50
- 71.52637° N, 22.74695° E
- Hydrocarbons in
- Stø Fm · EARLY/MID Jurassic
Well history
WRITTEN BY THE NORWEGIAN OFFSHORE DIRECTORATE
General
Well 7122/6-3 S was drilled to test the R dhette prospect in the Hammerfest Basin in the Barents Sea. The primary objective was to prove minimum commercial oil volumes in the Jurassic age Realgrunnen Subgroup, including determination of HC contacts.
Operations and results
A pilot well 7122/6_U_1was drilled down to 1015 m to confirm competent casing point for the mainbore surface casing.
Wildcat well 7122/6-3 S was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Scarabeo 8 on 16 September 2021 and drilled to TD at 2015 m (2004 m TVD) in the Triassic Fruholmen Formation. The well was drilled vertical down to 1300 m and deviated from there to TD with a sail angle of ca 10 . Operations proceeded without significant problems. The well was drilled with seawater and hi-vis pills down to 1002 m and with Glydril mud from 1002 m to TD.
Top of the target Realgrunnen Subgroup, St Formation was found at 1891 m. The St , Nordmela and Tub en formations were hydrocarbon bearing with a wet gas cap over oil. The gas-oil contact was determined at 1909.0 m (1899.7 m TVD) and oil was found down to a FWL at 1919.3 m (1909.8 m TVD). The reservoir quality was fair to good with porosities from 17 to 27% in the cleanest and best water bearing sands in the Fruholmen Formation. There is vertical communication across the St and Fruholmen formations.
Two cores were cut in succession from 1898 to 1927 m in the St , Nordmela, Tub en and Fruholmen formations. Recovery was 92% for core 1 and 100% for core 2. Oil samples were taken at 1911.5 m. Wet gas was sampled at 1899.19 m. Water samples were taken at 1920.8 m and 1939.79 m.
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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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