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Exploration wellbore: 24/6-2

General information

NPDID wellbore: 3397
Well name: 24/6-2
Drilling operator name: Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS
Geodetic datum: ED50
Coordinates: 59° 33` 32.41`` N 1° 57` 17.26`` E
UTM coordinates: 6602917.98 N 440925.36 E
UTM zone: 31
Drilled in production licence: 203
Area: NORTH SEA
Discovery:24/6-2 ALVHEIM
Field:ALVHEIM
Drill permit: 929-L
Drilling facility:TRANSOCEAN LEADER
Drilling days: 45
Wellbore entry date: 25.05.1998
Wellbore completion date: 08.07.1998
Original wellbore purpose: WILDCAT
Wellbore purpose: WILDCAT
Wellbore status: P&A
Wellbore contents: OIL/GAS
Discovery wellbore: YES
Formation/age with hydrocarbons 1:HEIMDAL FM / PALEOCENE
Seismic location: NH 9603 INLINE 716 & X-LINE 4914
Kelly bushing elevation (KB) [m]: 24
Water depth [m]: 124
Total Depth (MD) [m]: 2722
Final vertical depth (TVD) [m]: 2706
Max inclination [°]: 16.50
Bottom hole temperature [°C]: 76
Oldest penetrated age: PALEOCENE
Oldest penetrated formation: VÅLE FM
Note: All depths, except the water depth, are relative to kelly bushing (RKB)

Wellbore history

General

Well 24/6-2 was designed to test the hydrocarbon potential of the A2 North Heimdal T60 sand prospect within the Lista Formation in the northern part of the license acreage in block 24/6. A secondary target was defined in the A1 North Hermod T80 sand within the Sele Formation. The well should also test the seismic amplitudes in an area with indications of the presence of the Hermod sand. The well was planned to be drilled to a total depth of 2774 m within the Shetland Group.

Operations and results

Well 24/6-2 was drilled with the semi-submersible rig "Transocean Leader". It was spudded on 26 May 1998 and reached a total depth of 2722 m in the Paleocene Våle Formation on 18 June 1998. The well was drilled water based with bentonite mud to 1331 m and with KCl / Polymer mud from 1331 to TD. "BP PCD 208" (polyalkylene glycol) was added to the KCl / Polymer mud from 1802 m to TD (through the 8 1/2" section).

As TD was set in the Våle Formation the target Shetland Group was not encountered in the well. Both oil and gas were encountered within the Heimdal T60 sand. The gas zone extended from the top of the reservoir at 2099m and down to the oil-gas contact at 2151m (52m gross) and the oil extended down to the oil- water contact at 2168m (17m gross). The reservoir quality is generally excellent, but locally it is reduced either by fines or by calcite cement within what appear to be calcite nodules. The massive channel sands in the upper part of the reservoir confirm the braided channel model used for the T60 sand. Lower down in the reservoir oil zone much more fine material is present as laminations. Some of these units appear as shales on the gamma log, but are in fact fine-grained, argillaceous sands. No Hermod T80 sands were encountered in the well, nor was the "High Acoustic Interval" that was used to map the apparent sand distribution identified on the logs. Twelve cores were cut in the well from 2010 m in the lower part of the Balder Formation Tuff Member, through the Sele Formation and upper Lista Formation shale and down to under the oil-water contact in the Heimdal Formation at 2192 m (182 m in all). Recovery was generally excellent and in some cases over 100% due to gas expansion. The sands in the cores are generally unconsolidated and friable especially in the lower cores. This made plug cutting for core analysis difficult even after core 11 and 12 were frozen. MDT wireline oil samples were collected from 2164 m and 2167 m in the Heimdal Formation.

The well was permanently plugged and abandoned as an oil and gas discovery on 8 July 1998.

Testing

One drill stem test was run in the Heimdal Formation oil zone (perforation 2156.75 - 2165.75 m). The well flowed with a stable flow rate of 550 Sm3/day and 44.000 Sm3/day of gas through a 48/64" choke. Oil density was measured as 0.855 gm/cc. Gas gravity was 0.690 gm/cc and the GOR was 80 Sm3/Sm3. Water was produced during the higher flow rates.

Cuttings available at the NPD

Interval [m]: 1340.00 - 2195.00

Cores available at the NPD

Core length [m]: 168.60

Core number Interval
1 2010.00-2011.25
2 2012.00-2028.80
3 2029.00-2057.00
4 2057.00-2062.90
5 2075.00-2075.55
6 2076.00-2083.62
7 2084.00-2102.00
8 2102.00-2119.90
9 2120.00-2138.75
10 2138.00-2155.50
11 2156.00-2174.30
12 2174.00-2192.00

Scanned core photos

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Palynological slides available at the NPD

Oil samples available at the NPD

Test type: Bottle test number: Bottle interval [m]: Fluid type: Test date and time:
DST TEST1 2156.750 - 2165.750 1998.06.30 00:16

Casing and leak-off tests

Type Casing diam. [inch] Depth below KB [m] Hole diam. [inch] Hole depth below KB [m] Lot mud eqv. [g/cm3]
CONDUCTOR 30 221.0 36 221.0
INTERM. 13 3/8 1326.0 17 1/2 1331.0
INTERM. 9 5/8 1797.0 12 1/4 1802.0 1.81
OPEN HOLE 2722.0 8 1/2 2722.0

Mud

Depth MD [m] Mud weight [g/cm3] Visc. [MPa.s] Yield [pnt Pa.] Mud type Date measured
488 1.05 WATER BASED
1285 1.05 WATER BASED
1331 1.05 WATER BASED
1429 1.36 22.0 WATER BASED
1802 1.36 25.0 WATER BASED
1822 1.25 23.0 WATER BASED
2010 1.25 29.0 WATER BASED
2056 1.26 26.0 WATER BASED
2102 1.26 25.0 WATER BASED
2138 1.25 23.0 WATER BASED
2174 1.25 22.0 WATER BASED
2192 1.25 24.0 WATER BASED
2303 1.25 20.0 WATER BASED
2304 1.25 20.0 WATER BASED
2593 1.25 22.0 WATER BASED
2722 26.0 WATER BASED

Drill stem test (intervals and pressures)

Test no. Test interval [m] Choke size [mm] Final shut in pressure [MPa] Final flow pressure [MPa] Bottom hole pressure [MPa] Downhole temperature [°C]
1.0 2165 - 2156 19.0 4.800 18.680 69

Drill Stem Test (recovery)

Test no. Oil [Sm3/day] Gas [Sm3/day] Oil grav. [g/cm3] Gas grav. rel.air GOR [m3/m3]
1.0 550 44000 .860 .690 80

Available logs

Log type Intervals logged [m]
MWD DPR GR-DIR 147 - 2722
HALS DSI TLD CNL SP GRL GR 147 - 2720
FMI NGT 2720 - 2797
CST GR 1809 - 2720
MDT GR 2102 - 2205
VSP GR 1600 - 2710

Lithostratigraphy

Top depth [m] Litostratigraphic unit
148 NORDLAND GP
394 UTSIRA FM
680 HORDALAND GP
707 SKADE FM
958 NO FORMAL NAME
1183 GRID FM
1279 NO FORMAL NAME
1905 ROGALAND GP
1905 BALDER FM
2015 SELE FM
2054 LISTA FM
2099 HEIMDAL FM
2535 LISTA FM
2590 VÅLE FM
2622 TY FM
2678 VÅLE FM

Composite log

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Geochemical information

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