China National Offshore Oil Corp. International Ltd. (CNOOC) has taken delivery of a new topsides module for Buzzard Phase II in the North Sea’s Outer Moray Firth, about 96 km northeast of Aberdeen in about 96 m of water.
Housing process, utilities, and controls equipment, the 27-m long, 18-m tall, 516-tonne unit was loaded on board from the Worley Rosenberg fabrication facility in Stavanger, transported to the field, and subsequently installed on the southwest corner of the Buzzard production platform for hook up and commissioning.
Buzzard Phase II is a subsea development about 5 km northeast of Buzzard, consisting of a 12-slot manifold (eight production and four water injection slots). The development will tie back to the existing Buzzard complex with a pipeline bundle assembly incorporating pipelines, manifolds, subsea controls, and chemical injection. A brownfield module is to be installed on the production platform for processing and export via current export pipeline routes. Phase II production is expected to commence in 2021.
CNOOC is operator at Buzzard (43.2%) with partners Suncor Energy Inc. (29.9%), Chrysaor Norge AS (21.7%), and ONE Dyas BV (5.2%).