Equinor Energy AS brought offshore Norway Martin Linge oil and gas field online on June 30 following start-up approval by Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority in May (OGJ Online, May 14, 2021). Expected recoverable resources are about 260 MMboe. At plateau the field will produce about 115,000 boe/d.
Martin Linge, in 115 m of water 42 km west of Oseberg, is powered from shore and operated from an onshore control room in Stavanger. The platform receives power via a 162-km sea cable from the onshore substation at Kollsnes north of Bergen.
The platform was connected to shore power in December 2018 and was soon followed by the storage vessel on the field—the world’s first storage vessel to receive power from shore, according to the operator.
Martin Linge is also the first platform on the Norwegian continental shelf to be put on stream from shore. The production wells and processing plant are operated from the control room, and offshore operators use tablets in the field to interact with colleagues in the control room and operations center.
Equinor is operator with 70% interest. Petoro AS holds the remaining 30%.
