Dong Energy approves Marulk gas field development plan

Dong Energy AS has agreed to a 3.8 billion Danish kroner development plan for Marulk gas and condensate field in the Norwegian Sea.

July 15, 2010

Guntis Moritis
OGJ Production Editor

HOUSTON, July 15 -- Dong Energy AS has agreed to a 3.8 billion Danish kroner development plan for Marulk gas and condensate field in the Norwegian Sea. Eni Norge AS is the operator for the development that lies in about 370 m of water on Block 6407/9-9 about 30 km southwest of Norne field.

Dong Energy estimates that the field, discovered in 1992, contains about 71 million boe in Cretaceous sandstones in the Lysing and Lange formations at about 2,800 m.

The development plan calls for connecting two subsea completed Marulk wells to the production and storage vessel in Norne field that went on stream in 1997.

Last year, Alve gas-condensate field was connected to the Norne facility in a similar manner (OGJ Newsletter, Apr. 6, 2009).

Dong Energy expects Marulk to come on stream in second-quarter 2012, pending Norwegian authority approval of the development plan.

From Norne, the gas will be piped to facilities on the west coast of Norway and then enter the Gassled system to either Continental Europe or UK.

Partners in Marulk are Eni SPA 20%, Dong Energy 30%, and Statoil AS 50%.

Contact Guntis Moritis at [email protected].