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Bluewater’s Bluewater’s undergoing Haewene Brim an upgrade at the Nigg fabrication yard, Cromarty, Scotland.

Haewene Brim system on the Haewene Brim.

A riser base manifold, containing in Cromarty isolation valves and a multiphase fow meter module, adjacent to Pierce, will

By Elaine Maslin are slated to be production wells and be the commingling point between luewater’s Haewene Brim foat- a third will be used as a production Brynhild and Pierce. ing production and offoading well to enhance early production The common Brynhild-Pierce well vessel (FPSO) has been in dry rates. Brynhild will be tied back to the fow will then be transported to the

B dock for an upgrade at the Nigg fabrica- Haewene Brim, which handles produc- FPSO via a renewed 10-in.-diameter tion yard in the Cromarty Firth, north- tion from the Shell-operated Pierce dynamic fexible riser for well fuid east Scotland. feld. Pierce is 38km from Brynhild processing on the Haewene Brim.

It is the frst time the yard, operated on UK North Sea Blocks 23/22a and Produced gas will be re-injected by Global Energy Group, has accomo- 23/27. into the Pierce feld. A water injection dated an FPSO. It is also a rare sight As operator, Lundin began drilling system will inject treated seawater into on the Scottish coastline, with very the frst Brynhild well from a sub- both the Pierce and Brynhild felds.

few FPSOs having docked in Scotland sea template in June, using the self- The Hæwene Brim was converted yards in the history of the North Sea. elevating cantilever jackup rig Mærsk from a shuttle tanker to an FPSO at the

The work, led by engineering group Guardian. Aker McNulty yard in Newcastle in

AMEC, is to extend the life of the Gross reserves at Brynhild, accord- late 1997-1998, and started operating at

Haewene Brim and to enable it to take ing to Lundin, are 23MM boe. Plateau the Pierce feld early in 1999.

production from Lundin Petroleum’s production is estimated at 12M boe/d, The Haewene Brim last drydocked

Brynhild subsea development, about with frst oil expected at the end of at A&P Tyne’s number 5 dock on 210 km off the Norwegian coast 2013. Tyneside, England, in 2004, for the (PL148). The Brynhild feld will operate using addition of a water injection stopides

The Brynhild project is a four-well a subsea production system (SPS) tied module and hull maintenance, led by subsea development on Block 7 on back via a 38km-long, 6in.-daimeter a partnership between A&P Tyne and the Norwegian continental shelf. Two pipe-in-pipe fowline, with a control McNulty Offshore Contractors.

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