Shell has used the âScarabeo 8â S/S to drill an exploration well on the Tyttebaer prospect in PL 373 S. 34/5-2 S, which spudded on 31 May 2018, is located approximately 11 km southwest of the Shell-operated Knarr field which has been producing since 2015, and 4 km east of the 2010 Blabaer discovery. TD was reached at 3,712 m in the Lower Jurassic Amundsen Formation. There was 85 m of the Lower Jurassic Cook Formation objective present in the well and 50 m of this was sandstone (with poor to moderate reservoir quality). However, the well was dry and it was abandoned on 4 July 2018.  Knarr (previously known as Jordbaer) was developed using two subsea templates for production and injection connected to an FPSO which has a production capacity of 63,000 boe/d and a storage capacity of 800,000 boe. Oil is exported using shuttle tankers and gas via an existing export pipeline in the UK (FLAGS). Knarr Central (discovered in 2008 by well 34/3-1 S) and Knarr West (discovered by 34/3-3 S in 2011) have combined recoverable reserves of approximately 70 MMboe and the field is expected to produce for 6-20 years. The reservoir is the Lower Jurassic Cook Formation.    Blabaer was discovered by 34/5-1 S. A 65 m oil column was encountered in the primary Cook Formation objective and potential reserves for this compartment (prior to drilling) were given at 21 MMbo. A sidetrack drilled into a separate segment was dry. This discovery now lies within Aker BPâs PL 790.     Interest in PL 373 S is held by A/S Norske Shell (45% + operator), Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS (25%), Wintershall Norge AS (20%) and DEA Norge AS (10%).
034/05-02S (TyttebÃ¦r) (Shell 45%, Idemitsu 25%, Wintershall 20%, DEA 20%) in PL 373 S block, P&A, dry, had encountered 85m of thick rocks in the Cook fm, however 50m were sandstone with generally poor to moderate reservoir quality.