Offshore staff
STAVANGER, Norway – Equinor has started up a new gas module on the Troll C platform in the northern Norwegian North Sea, designed to boost production from the satellite Fram oil and gas field.
In 2017, the Fram partners committed to the circa NOK 1-billion ($108-million) investment to increase gas processing capacity on Troll C by 3.5 MMcm/d.
Gunnar Nakken, senior vice president, operations west at Equinor, said the new module accelerates gas production and capacity in the Fram license for existing and new wells, also allowing future discoveries to be tied in.
Last year the Fram license partners discovered the Echino South field, and various other prospects are under consideration for drilling, he added.
Aibel managed engineering for the 400-metric ton-plus (441-ton) module in Bergen and undertook fabrication in Haugesund. Around 300 personnel were involved in the program.
Fram is 20 km (12.4 mi) north of the giant Troll field in a water depth of 350 m (1,148 ft). Development involved the installation of two four-slot subsea templates at each of Fram West and Fram East.
The field’s wellstream is transported by pipeline to Troll C for processing, with the oil heading through the Troll II pipeline to Mongstad, western Norway, while the gas is exported through Troll A to Kollsnes.
Other partners are Vår Energi, Neptune Energy Norge, and Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS.
02/11/2020
