By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 24 -- Dansk Olie & Naturagas AS (DONG) has let a contract to UWG Group for the design, fabrication, project management, and installation of two subsea templates for the Nini and Cecile oil fields in the Danish North Sea.
The two 10-slot templates each weigh 17 tonnes and will be installed from a jack up rig on the two fields.
DONG and its other licensees of Nini and Cecilie fields were granted authority to develop those fields last year (OGJ Online, July 23, 2002).
Installation of the Nini template took place last month while development work on Cecile is expected to occur in late spring.
Jacket and topside facility installation will be performed over the templates once the predrilling of wells is complete.
"The templates' circular design presented several unique challenges with respect to sharing the same docking pile modules as well as their compact modular requirements for transportation and assembly," said Rowan Patterson, UWG business manager, well systems engineering.
Reserves in the two fields are estimated at 65 million bbl of crude oil.
Ownership interests in Nini are DONG 40%, Denerco Oil AS 30%, and RWE DEA AG 30%. Cecilie interests include DONG 22%, Denerco Oil 37%, Denerco Petroleum AS 24%, and RWE DEA 17%.
