Aker BP books floatel for more support work at Skarv offshore mid-Norway
Aker BP and its partners in the Skarv Satellite Project (SSP) in the Norwegian Sea have re-signed the Floatel Endurance for six months’ support service at the Skarv field.
The rig should return to the field during spring/early summer next year.
Last year, its increased bed capacity was used to support modification work and prepare the Skarv FPSO for SSP’s three subsea tieback developments, where production is due to start in 2027.
Floatel Endurance also enabled preventive maintenance on the FPSO. The busiest period of activity was a turnaround campaign last fall, which had to be conducted simultaneously with the halt of operations at the onshore Kårstø processing complex.
In the Norwegian North Sea, Aker BP has agreed to farm down a 35% interest to OKEA in the southern part of production licenses 1102/1102B, containing the Tverrdal prospect.
Tverrdal is 13 km north of the OKEA-operated Brage platform; Aker BP and its partners are due to take a drill-or-drop decision on drilling in May.
Farther south, Aker BP has assumed operatorship of the Oda field from Sval Energi.
Talar Arif, director of the Ula area, said, “By transferring the operatorship to Aker BP, Oda will become an integrated part of the optimization of late-phase operations, as well as the planning and execution of the decommissioning and removal of infrastructure in the Ula area."
Arif added, “This will provide both technical and economic synergies in the operational and decommissioning phases."
Oda, which came onstream in 2019, has been developed via a subsea template with two production wells and one injection well tied back 14 km to the Ula platform.
DNO Norge, another of the partners, recently agreed to acquire Sval Energi and its entire Norwegian E&P portfolio.
