By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 18 -- Partners in Production License 025, off Norway, plan to submit a plan to Norwegian authorities for developing and operating Gudrun field.
Licensees in PL 025 are operator Statoil ASA 46.8%, Marathon Petroleum Norge AS 28.2%, and GDF Suez E&P Norge AS 25%.
Statoil estimates that Gudrun contains about 132 million boe, with crude accounting for about two thirds of the amount. It expects first production from the field in 2014.
The field, discovered in 1974, has a Jurassic reservoir with a high 820-bar pressure that lies at a 4,200-4,700 m depth.
The proposed plan includes developing Gudrun with a steel 16-well slot production platform in 110-m of water. The field is about 55 km north of the Sleipner offshore installations.
Statoil estimates Gudrun field installations, pipelines, and drilling of production wells will cost 21 billion kroner.
Aker Solutions received a 420 million kroner contract for engineering, procurement, construction, load-out and sea-fastening of the 7,100-tonne steel jacket and associated piles.
Aker Solutions plans to start jacket fabrication at its Verdal yard in July and deliver it in summer 2011.
The company plans to issue in the near future tenders for construction of the topsides with processing facilities, living quarters, modification work on Sleipner A, heavy lifting and installation, pipeline fabrication and laying, and drilling.
The development plans call for:
• Processing equipment on the platform for partial oil and gas stabilization.
• Living quarters with 40 cabins.
• Transport of oil and gas to Sleipner A.
• Power supplied by cable from Sleipner East
• Seven initial production wells with the other wells slots for additional future Gudrun wells or wells from other fields in the area.
