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ETAP’s operating effciency and develop a SOM. The ELXP will include adding a new accommodation facility, to increase bed space by a minimum of 25 new beds.

Production

In total, BP expects the project to spend about 400,000 direct man- hours, mostly on fabric and equipment maintenance-related work, with some like-for-like replacement of operating equipment.

The ELXP intervention will use a mobile accommodation unit alongside the QU platform, to provide access to the CPF, and support 24-hour manning.

BP has used the R2S visualization and asset integrity management tool on the

An option for an accommodation ves-

Magnus platform. sel has been identifed.

and 360MMcf/d gas. Its expected Oil is exported via the Forties pipeline Crucial to the entire program is plan- feld life was 20 years, but continued system to Kinneil. Gas is exported via ning, says Sandoval: reservoir delivery has led to potentially the CATS pipeline to Teesside. “We started in 2011 and will only extending the economic life of the Sandavol says OE of the ETAP facili- begin work on Magnus in early 2014,” asset to 2030. ties has been signifcantly impacted by he says. “It takes roughly three years

The ETAP central processing facility underlying reliability issues. The asset to plan properly—to identify what the (CPF) comprises a production drilling is also aging, compounding the perfor- right work is, then how to do it around riser platform, bridge-linked to a quar- mance decline, and contributing to an [a] live plant.” ters and utilities (QU) platform, with overall decline in operating effciency. The team has learned from work a capacity for 117 POB. A normally on the ongoing Andrew Area unmanned installation, with maximum Development, which is using a fotel

Intervention 12 POB, stands about 20km to the east. The ELXP’s main aim is to restore to aid processing facility modifcations

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