Wintershall Dea Norge AS has let an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract to TechnipFMC for the operator’s Dvalin North project (OGJ Online, Dec. 13, 2022).
The contract covers the design, engineering, manufacture, and installation of pipe for Dvalin North field, which will be tied back to the Heidrun platform via the existing Dvalin field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
The service provider, who values the contract somewhere between $75-250 million, previously installed subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines in Dvalin field, the company said in a release Jan. 10.
Dvalin North field lies 200 km off the coast of Northern Norway, west of Sandnessjøen, at a water depth of 420 m. It is estimated to contain 84 MMboe and the gas will be exported via the Polarled pipeline to Nyhamna near Kristiansund in Norway.
Wintershall Dea is operator of the field with a 55% share. Petoro has 35% and Sval Energi has 10%.