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The document describes the Gullfaks oil field located in the North Sea, including its discovery, development, infrastructure, reservoirs, recovery strategy, transportation, status and key facts. Well data including headers, deviations, logs and tops are supplied for modeling the reservoirs.

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Chapter 03 Data Set

The document describes the Gullfaks oil field located in the North Sea, including its discovery, development, infrastructure, reservoirs, recovery strategy, transportation, status and key facts. Well data including headers, deviations, logs and tops are supplied for modeling the reservoirs.

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3D Geological Modeling Chapter 03 – Data Set

Data Set used in the Petrel


The Gullfaks data set has been released for commercial use by the Norwegian oil company
Statoil. Gullfaks is one of the major oil fields in the North Sea and one of the largest oil
producing fields on the Norwegian continental shelf, Fig. 3.1 Gullfaks is an oil and gas field in
the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Statoil Hydro. It was discovered in 1979, in
block 34/10, at a water depth of 135 meters (442.913 foot). The initial recoverable reserve is 2.1
billion barrels, and the remaining recoverable reserve in 2004 is 234 million barrels. This oil
field reached peak production in 2001 at 180,000 barrels per day.

Fig. 3.1: Gullfaks Oil Field

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Fig3.2: Infrastructure on the Gullfacks field

Development
The sea depth in the area is 130 - 220 meters (426.509 - 721.784 foot). The field has been
developed with three integrated processing, drilling and accommodation facilities with concrete
bases and steel topsides, Gullfaks A, B and C. Gullfaks B has a simplified processing plant with
only first-stage separation.

Gullfaks A and C receive and process oil and gas from Gullfaks Sør and Gimle. The facilities
are also involved in production and transport from Tordis, Vigdis and Visund. The Tordis
production is processed in a separate facility on Gullfaks C.

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Reservoir
The Gullfaks reservoirs consist of Middle Jurassic sandstones of the Brent Group, and Lower
Jurassic and Upper Triassic sandstones of the Cook, Statfjord and Lunde formations. The
reservoirs are 1700 - 2000 meters (5577.427- 6561.679 foot) below the sea level.

The Gullfaks reservoirs are located in rotated fault blocks in the west and a structural horst in
the east, with an intermediate highly faulted area.

Fig3.3: Structural setting of the Gulfacks main field showing 3 main areas

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Fig3.4: Lithostratigraphy of the Gulfacks main field

Recovery strategy
The drive mechanisms are water injection, gas injection or water/alternating gas injection
(WAG). The drive mechanism varies between the drainage areas in the field, but water injection
constitutes the main strategy.

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Fig3.5: Gullfaks offshore

Transport
Oil is exported from Gullfaks A and Gullfaks C via loading buoys to shuttle tankers. The part of
the rich gas that is not reinjected is sent through the export pipeline to Stat pipe for further
processing at Kårstø and export to the Continent as dry gas .

Fig3.6: Transportation of Gullfaks

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Status
Production from Gullfaks is in the decline phase. Efforts are being made to increase recovery,
partly by locating and draining pockets of remaining oil in water flooded areas, and partly
through continued massive water circulation .

Implementation of a chemical flooding pilot will be considered in 2010. A new project has
also been initiated to evaluate necessary facility upgrades for lifetime extension of the field
towards 2030 .

Facts about Gullfaks


Operations: In Norway.
Operator: Statoil Hydro ASA
Location: 34/10 in the northern part of the North Sea
Discovery year: 1978
Production start: Gullfaks A December 1986

Gullfaks B February 1988

Gullfaks C November 1989


Production: Oil and Gas
API: 37.5°
S.G.: 0.8372
Sulphur: 0.22 mass%
Pour Point: -15 °C
Exploration wells: Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s: 25 wells
Statoil ASA: 6 wells
Development wells: Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s: 169 wells
Statoil ASA: 52 wells
Statoil Hydro ASA: 4 wells
Licensees: Petro AS (30.0 %)
Statoil Hydro ASA (61.0 %)
Statoil Hydro Petroleum AS (9.0 %)
Recoverable reserves: 357 million Sm3 oil 24 billion Sm3 gas 3 million tonns ngl
Remaining 2008-02-01:
27 million Sm3 oil 2 billion Sm3 gas 0 million tonns ngl

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The Supplied Reservoir Data


The following wells, along with their well headers (well location map), well deviations (well
paths), well logs, and well tops (formation tops), are supplied: A10, A15, A16, B1, B2, B4, B8,
B9, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, and C7. The stratigraphic succession of the reservoir under study is
given in the following table:

Succession Horizon Zone


1 (top) Cretaceous
Tarbert-3
Tarbert Tarbert-2
2
Tarbert-1
Ness-2
3 Ness
Ness-1
4 (bottom) Ettive

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