Statoil awards water-injection contract for Heidrun field in N. Sea

Statoil ASA, Stavanger, has awarded a water injection-related contract to the VM alliance, a venture of Halliburton Co., Fabricom, and Sørco. The alliance will modify the Heidrun platform in the Norwegian North Sea to allow water injection to provide pressure support for production wells.

Oct. 10, 2001

By the OGJ Online Staff

HOUSTON, Oct. 10 -- Statoil ASA, Stavanger, has awarded a water injection-related contract to the VM alliance, a venture of Halliburton Co., Fabricom, and Sørco.

The alliance will modify the Heidrun platform in the Norwegian North Sea to allow water injection to provide pressure support for production wells.

The project, part of Statoil's zero-discharge strategy, was announced in July (OGJ Online, July 17, 2001).

The companies will conduct engineering work as well as procurement, construction, installation, and completion operations. Plans call for the modifications to be finished in October 2003.

The contractors will install two modules on the platform. One will contain three water injection pumps, while the other will remove naturally occurring seawater sulphate, which contains high concentrations of barium, before the water is injected into the reservoir.

Heidrun produces 63,000 b/d of water. Future volumes could be as high as 190,000 b/d.