Offshore staff
LONDON – EnQuest has issued an update on its field extension programs and development projects in the UK North Sea.
At theMagnus field in the East Shetland basin, recent achievements include plant de-bottlenecking, high levels of water injection uptime and completion of two wells.
The company plans further increases in water injection capacity and is also drawing up various new drilling and workover targets.
Elsewhere in the northern UK sector, production at the Thistle field has benefited from debottlenecking of the produced water handling system, and an idle well abandonment program has been completed. The drilling team has now been mobilized to the Heather platform for a similar two-well abandonment campaign.
Work continues on the Dunlin bypass export project, with volumes from Thistle and Dons to be redirected through the Magnus facilities.
Testing has finished on all 11 wells at theheavy-oil Kraken field. EnQuest continues to assess additional near-field, short-cycle drilling opportunities and the potential Western Flank development.
At Alma/Galia in the UK central North Sea, performance has improved following replacement of the electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) and more efficient water injection, although production from the Galia reservoir has ended following the cessation of the originally installed ESP. Five wells remain in operation on the Alma reservoir.
As for the Scolty/Crathes tieback to the Greater Kittiwake Area platform, production continues to be limited by wax in the flowline. A replacement pipeline is due to be installed next summer.
Offshore Peninsular Malaysia, an idle well intervention program continues at the PM8/Seligi facilities designed to arrest the field’s natural decline. By end-October, 11 idle wells had been restored to service, with associated production improvements.
Plans are under way to drill two wells next year, and further idle well interventions.
12/05/2018
