Offshore staff
LONDON – Neptune Energy has started gas production from the Gjøa P1 development in the Norwegian North Sea.
Gjøa P1 is tied back to the Gjøa field’s semisubmersible production platform via a new subsea template connected to existing infrastructure.
It is a two-well development comprising one oil and one gas producer: the oil well is due to start up later this week.
Neptune’s managing director in Norway, Odin Estensen, said: “Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we delivered the project on time and on budget.
“The start-up of Gjøa P1 underlines the Gjøa platform’s position as an important hub, increasing total remaining developed reserves at Gjøa by 30%.”
The field is set to produce over 100 MMboe more than estimated when production started in 2010.
Neptune’s projects and engineering director in Norway, Erik Oppedal, added that P1 “enables us to recover significant quantities of oil and gas from deeper lying reservoirs, as well as to utilize spare production capacity.
“This will help lower production costs per barrel, adding significant value to the Gjøa license partners [Neptune, Petoro, Wintershall Dea Norge, and OKEA] and to Norwegian society.”
Gjøa, discovered in 1989, has been developed through five subsea templates. Oil is exported by pipeline to Mongstad, western Norway and gas by pipeline to St. Fergus in eastern Scotland.
The P1 segment is in the northern part of the Gjøa field, and is tied back to the platform through a 5-km (3.1-mi) oil pipeline and a 2-km (1.24-mi) gas pipeline in a water depth of 340 m (1,115 ft).
02/23/2021
