Aker BP has let a contract to PG Flow Solutions to supply pump systems for the normally unmanned wellhead platform to be used at the planned Hod field development in the North Sea (OGJ Online, June 10, 2020).
Under the contract, PG Flow Solutions will deliver miscellaneous pumps to the platform topside, including a pressure equalizing pump, freshwater pump, freshwater pressure pump, diesel transfer pump, and one hazardous open drain pump.
The company will manage the project out of its facility in Sande, Vestfold, Norway.
A value for the contract, which remains subject to government approval of the HOD plan for development and operations, was not disclosed.
The contract is almost identical to the pump system delivery that PG Flow Solutions made to Aker BP and the Wellhead Platform Alliance for the Valhall Flank West wellhead platform in 2018, which came on stream in fourth-quarter 2019.
The Wellhead Platform Alliance, established in 2017, is comprised of Aker BP, Kvaerner, ABB, and Aker Solutions.
Hod field was discovered in 1974; first oil came onstream in 1990 as a tie back to Valhall Central Complex, producing via a wellhead platform until 2013. The development project is now working towards a new development of field, planning to install a new normally unmanned platform that will be tied-back to and remotely controlled from the Valhall Central Complex.
Hod lies in Block 2/11 in the southern part of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, some 12 km south of Valhall Central Complex, 6 km south of the Valhall Flank South platform.
Aker is operator with 90%. Pandion Energy AS holds the remaining 10%.