Offshore staff
KASSEL, Germany – The semisubmersible West Mira has started drilling the first of six wells on the Wintershall Dea-operated Nova field in the Norwegian North Sea.
Scheduled to be on site for around 400 days, the rig will drill three production wells through one of two subsea templates, and three water injection wells through the second. Water depth is 370 m (1,214 ft).
Nova is being developed as a subsea tieback to the Neptune Energy-operated Gjøa semisubmersible platform, 17 km (10.6 mi) to the northeast. Gjøa will receive the production fluids and provide injection water and lift gas to the Nova field. Oil from Nova will be transported from Gjøa through the Troll Oil Pipeline II to Mongstad, associated gas will be exported via the Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System pipeline to St Fergus in the UK.
Nova is expected to go onstream in 2022.
10/27/2020
