Vår Energi ASA has let a 2-year contract extension to KCA Deutag to provide offshore drilling and maintenance services on the Ringhorne platform in the Norwegian North Sea. The award extends the contract to March 2026.
Ringhorne field is equipped with a platform which produces and sends oil and gas to the Balder floating production unit (FPU), about 9 km away, for final process, storage, and export. Production at Ringhorne started in 2003 (OGJ Online, Aug. 4, 2023).
Vår Energi is operator of the field.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
