Oil field · Norway

Knarr

Knarr is an oil field in the Norwegian North Sea. It was discovered in 2008 and produced from 2015 to 2022. Production has ceased. Over its life it produced about 69.2 million barrels of oil, condensate and NGL.

Production

Knarr produced about 69.2 million barrels of oil, condensate and NGL and 420 million cubic metres of gas between May 2015 and December 2022.

Oil, condensate and NGL, barrels a day, by month
Knarr: oil, condensate and ngl production by month, May 2015 to December 2022020k40k60k80k2016201820202022

Latest: 200 barrels a day in December 2022. Highest year: 2016, averaging 55,000 barrels a day. Highest month: August 2016.

Gas, million cubic metres a day, by month
Knarr: gas production by month, May 2015 to December 202200.250.50.7512016201820202022

Latest: 0.019 million cubic metres a day in December 2022. Highest year: 2016, averaging 0.39 million cubic metres a day. Highest month: April 2017.

Average production by year

YearOil, condensate and NGL, barrels a dayGas, million m³ a day
20222,6000.011
202111,0000.052
202017,0000.094
201913,0000.064
201820,0000.095
201747,0000.33
201655,0000.39
2015 (May–Dec)36,0000.17

Field details

StatusShut down
TypeOil field
Discovered2008 (wellbore 34/3-1 S)
First productionMarch 2015
Water depth406 m
Sea areaNorth Sea
Supply baseFlorø
Expected total recoveryoil 60.6 million barrels; gas 410 million cubic metres; NGL 0.6 million tonnes (Sodir estimate, 2025)
Produced so far100% of the expected total
Wellbores inside the outline10
Official recordSodir FactPage

Platforms and installations

One installation is removed or no longer in use: Petrojarl Knarr.

3 more installations are on the seabed, such as well templates.

Sources

Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sodir): field, production, reserves, licensee and facility data from the FactPages, with production monthly to August 2026.

Offshore Data Atlas converts the reported volumes to barrels and cubic metres a day (one cubic metre is 6.29 barrels). Norwegian figures are saleable production.