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REGIONAL OVERVIEW new concept for Norway, but widely used in the Dutch and

UK sectors, will be deployed on the Oseberg Vest? anken 2 for complete delivery of the ULQ in June 2015. Meanwhile, at project for which a plan for development and operation was

Kvaerner Verdal, three of the four steel platform jackets are approved by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in June being constructed for the remaining three riser, drilling and (Read more, page 36). The installation - 9km from the main process platforms. Spain’s Dragados Offshore is constructing Oseberg ? eld center – is due onstream in 2018 operated by the ? nal jacket for the ULQ. Statoil and will tap 110 MMboe of reserves – 62 MMbbl is oil,

Apply Leirvik in Norway is building the accommoda- and 7.8 Bcm is gas.

tion module for the ULQ. Topsides for the riser and process Norway’s Barents Sea Johan Castberg ? eld encompassing platforms are being built by Samsung Heavy Industries. the earlier Havis and Drivis discoveries and 110km beyond

Norwegian ? rm Aibel is constructing topsides for the the Snohvit ? eld off northern Norway, is still subject to con-

Sverdrup drilling platform. Development drilling for the ? rst ceptual studies, including an FPSO. Reserves, according to 35 phase one wells started in March. the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, are 85.9 MMcm (540

Recently, Statoil indicated a reduction in capex for Sverdrup MMbbl) but an onstream date – originally touted for 2018 – is phase one, from NOK 123.2 billion (US$14.4 billion) at PDO still unknown since it has been delayed several times.

submission, to NOK 108.5 billion ($12.7 billion) at present. For the Johan Castberg project, Statoil’s current capex fore-

Partner Lundin Petroleum reported in May that a de-bottle- cast is down 50-60% from NOK 100 billion ($11.6 billion) back necking study suggested a potential increase in processing ca- in 2013 to NOK 50-60 billion ($5.8-7 billion) at present re? ect-

Maersk Drilling’s Maersk Inteprid jackup has been drilling on pacity from 315,000-380,000 b/d to 440,000 b/d of oil for phase ing cuts in industry costs as the oil price has tumbled in the

Total’s Martin Linge project. Photo from Maersk Drilling. one. Sverdrup phase one is due onstream at the end of 2019. last two years (Read more, page 16).

This year concept selection for phase two at Sverdrup is due – Remontowa yard in Gdansk, Poland, in July and transit to the

UK activity a study for which is underway by Norway’s Aker Solutions. UK North Sea ? eld.

While two new signi? cant projects are due onstream – BP’s £3 Two other UK projects, the Kraken heavy oil development

Imminent start-ups billion ($4 billion) Quad 204 redevelopment, West of Shetland, by EnQuest, and the Catcher project by Premier Oil, both us-

Earlier this year saw ? rst oil from the Goliat ? eld, the ? rst using the new build Glen Lyon FPSO (due onstream this year) ing FPSOs also, are due onstream in 2017.

surface development in the Barents Sea using a Sevan Marine and its Clair Ridge development (expected online at the end EnQuest shaved $425 million off the original $3.2 billion round-hulled FPSO (? oating production, storage and of? oad- of 2017) – activity in the UK is, more broadly, at a much lower Kraken cost earlier this year. The converted integrated turret ing) tapping an estimated 174 MMbbl of oil and the ? rst proj- level. FPSO, which will be leased from and operated by Malaysia’s ect to be operated by Eni Norge, offshore Norway. Chevron recently signaled that it has abandoned a plan to Bumi Armada to EnQuest, departed dry dock in December

The next start up is likely to be Ivar Aasen, another NOK use a new bridge-linked platform for an EOR (enhanced oil re- last year and is on course for departure from Singapore in 18.025 billion ($2.1 billion) ? xed platform project offshore covery) project at its Captain heavy oil ? eld. Instead Chevron, 2016. Bumi is converting a recently built ice-class tanker for

Norway, which will also tap the West Cable discovery and the which had earlier issued tenders to four platform bidders, re- the conversion. It will use an NOV buoy turret mooring with

Hanz accumulation in a second phase. It is due onstream in vealed that it has instead opted for a lower cost concept, based 16 risers and Framo swivel stack. Four production wells are

Q4 2016, and is operated by Det Norske. on brown? eld modi? cations to the existing Captain A facility. due to be available at ? rst oil.

Asta Hansteen, using an eight-slot, deepwater spar, was But, Maersk is progressing its $4.5 billion, three-platform Premier Oil has also been shaving costs off its project, approved for development in 2013, and is due onstream late Culzean development, for which ? rst steel was cut earlier this Catcher. The project, involving a new-build FPSO on contract 2018, costing an estimated NOK 3 billion ($350 year at Sembcorp Marine Offshore Platforms, formerly known from BW Offshore and with Aibel fabricating the topsides, million). as SMOE, in Singapore. is now forecast to cost $1.35 billion to ? rst oil, after a 15%

Next will be the 225 MMboe Gina Krog de- Ithaca Energy is progressing its Greater Stella area devel- reduction in costs. Catcher will be a 22 subsea well project (14 velopment, using a ? xed platform and an FSO opment to tap the Stella and Harrier ? elds with a converted producers and eight water injectors) expected to produce 96 (? oating storage and of? oading). It is due to come ? oating production unit, the FPF1, which was due to leave the MMboe over its lifetime. onstream in Q1 2017 with oil of? oading and gas

Det norske’s FPSO, soon to be part of Aker BP.

Alvheim export via Sleipner A, at cost of NOK 31 billion ($3.6

Photo from Det norske.

billion)

Martin Linge will follow in 2018. It is a structurally complex, high-pressure, high-temperature ? eld oper- ated by Total, which gained development approval in

June 2012, is currently costed at NOK 34.8 billion ($4 billion), and will be developed with a ? xed platform and an FSO, with power from shore. Rich gas will be exported via pipeline into the UK Frigg system and landed at St Fergus, while oil and condensate will be tanker-of? oaded. Production well drilling started in

September 2014, using the Maersk Intrepid jackup, with six wells due to be ready before production start- up, which is scheduled for 2018.

Concepts

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