BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. and Norsk Hydro AS have settled on export routes for oil from Schiehallion and Loyal fields west of the Shetland Islands and Troll C platform in the Norwegian North Sea, respectively.
Shetlands FPSO
BP plans to send crude oil from Schiehallion and Loyal to Sullom Voe oil terminal on Shetland Island, beginning in mid-1998. BP is operator of the terminal and said £10 million ($16 million) will be invested there.
As many as four oil storage tanks at Sullom Voe will be refurbished to take Schiehallion and Loyal oil, and jetty number three will be recommissioned. Work will take place this summer.
Schiehallion and Loyal, on Block 204/20, are expected to produce 140,000 b/d of oil via a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) ship. The ship will have capacity to store 950,000 bbl of oil.
BP expects to unload the FPSO ship about twice a week into a newbuild 125,000-metric ton dedicated shuttle tanker. The tanker will be operated by BP but leased from A.P. Moller, Copenhagen, which has let contract to Daewoo to build the tanker in South Korea.
Troll line
Troll field partner Den norske stats oljeselskap AS (Statoil) reported that field partners have decided that oil from Troll C platform will be delivered through a new pipeline to Mongstad terminal north of Bergen.
Troll C will be a production semisubmersible, to be placed in the northeastern part of supergiant Troll field's central gas province, where it will develop a thin oil layer beginning October 1999 (OGJ, Sept. 2, 1996, p. 32).
Oil from the similar Troll B platform is already exported by pipeline to Mongstad. Statoil said license partners considered exports to Mongstad or nearby Sture terminal but decided Mongstad tariffs were cheaper.
The new export route will be a 16-in., 90-km pipeline with capacity to carry 200,000 b/d of oil and is expected to cost 500 million kroner ($75 million).
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