DRAUGEN PLATFORM TAKES SHAPE FOR INSTALLATION OFF NORWAY

The gravity base for AS Norske Shell's Draugen platform has been towed from Norwegian Contractors' yard at Stavanger, Norway, to a deepwater fjord at Vats for completion of work on the structure. The lower part of the structure under tow had a displacement of 200,000 metric tons and measured 259 ft from the bottom of base to the top of the shaft. Towing speeds ranged from less than 1/2 knot to 2 knots. Norwegian Contractors will resume slipforming the shaft at Vats in February. The

Jan. 27, 1992

The gravity base for AS Norske Shell's Draugen platform has been towed from Norwegian Contractors' yard at Stavanger, Norway, to a deepwater fjord at Vats for completion of work on the structure.

The lower part of the structure under tow had a displacement of 200,000 metric tons and measured 259 ft from the bottom of base to the top of the shaft. Towing speeds ranged from less than 1/2 knot to 2 knots.

Norwegian Contractors will resume slipforming the shaft at Vats in February. The work is scheduled for completion in June, when the structure will be 934 ft high.

The topsides also will be installed at Vats, and the completed platform is scheduled to be towed to Draugen field on Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea off mid-Norway in May 1993. It will go on stream later that year.

Draugen, in Block 6407/9, will produce at a peak rate of 95,000 b/d of oil from 428 million bbl of reserves.

Shell's partners in the field development project are Den norske stats oijeselskap AS and BP Petroleum Development (Norway) Ltd.