On 27 April 2019 Equinor used the âTransocean Spitsbergenâ S/S to spud exploration well 6507/3-13 on the Snadd Outer Outer prospect in PL 159 B. TD was reached at 3,420 m (3,380 m TVDSS) in the Lower Cretaceous Lyr Formation and on 7 June 2019 the well was abandoned. The primary target was the Upper Cretaceous Lysing Formation and there was a secondary target in the Cretaceous Lange Formation named Black Vulture. The well encountered 25 m of the Lysing formation, including a gas column of 5 m with poor to good reservoir quality. Within the Lange formation, 25 m sandstone layers were encountered in which oil and gas was proven and 14 m had moderate reservoir properties. Estimated recoverable reserves are 1.9-12.6 MMboe in the Lysing formation and 0.6 â 50.3 MMboe in the Lange formation. Technical problems occurred whilst drilling 6507/3-13 A which prevented delineation of the Lange formation resulting in uncertainty in the recoverable volumes.  The Snadd Outer Outer prospect lies to the northeast of Snadd Outer which was drilled by BP with 6507/3-9 S in 2012. Snadd Outer has a Lysing Formation reservoir and recoverable reserves at the time of discovery were given as 42-81 Bcfg. The discovery will be brought onstream in Phase II of the Aerfugl development (planned for 2020 / 2021). Aerfugl, which was previously called Snadd, lies to the southwest of Snadd Outer. Aerfugl has estimated recoverable reserves of 975-1,653 Bcfg plus 31-48 MMbc in its Lysing Formation reservoir.  Interest in PL 159 B is divided between Equinor Energy AS (53% + operator), DNO through Faroe Petroleum Norge AS (32%) and INEOS E&P Norge AS (15%).
6507/03-13 (Snadd Outer Outer) (Equinor 53% op, DNO 32%, INEOS 15%) in PL 159 B, P&A, o&g disc, found a total of between 2,5 and 63 MMboe both in the primary target in the Lysing Fm (5m of net pay in a sst. reservoir of poor-to-good quality in the Lysing Fm. and the secondary Lange structure (14m of moderate-quality reservoir).