Offshore staff
STAVANGER, Norway — Aibel has been awarded a contract by Aker BP for constructing the Munin platform (formerly Krafla) in the Yggdrasil area offshore Norway.
The contract has a value of about NOK 7 billion (US$707 million).
Aibel is responsible for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) connected with delivering an unmanned process platform (UPP).
The project will be based on Aibel's FEED for Krafla UPP, now Munin, which was awarded in 2021. Key priorities for the project have been safety in design, minimal maintenance requirements and simplification of systems and functions on the platform using high-reliability equipment, automation and digitalization, applying a so-called "design to operate" philosophy.
Munin will not have a helicopter deck nor living quarters, and it will be the first process platform on the Norwegian continental shelf designed from start for ordinary operation without a crew.
Hence, the platform will have a relatively lean design, be operated from shore, and be available for maintenance with a service operations vessel.
Munin will act as a production platform where the gas goes directly for export, while oil and water are directed into a shared pipe to the Hugin A platform (formerly NOA PdQ). Here, oil and water are separated, and the oil is exported by pipes to the Sture onshore terminal.
Project management, procurement and engineering services will mainly be carried out at Aibel's Oslo office. Construction will take place at Aibel's yards in Haugesund and Thailand.
Aibel said the UPP concept has been developed together with Equinor.
The development of the Yggdrasil area is subject to approval by the Norwegian Parliament.
12.15.2022
