Offshore staff
LONDON — EnQuest expects to award contracts later this year for the removal of the Heather and Thistle platform topsides and jackets in the UK northern North Sea.
The company recently concluded the tender processes for heavy-lift vessels for these work scopes, which are scheduled for 2024 and 2025.
As for the Heather and Thistle plug and abandonment (P&A) campaigns, six wells have been completed at Heather and nine wells at Thistle. The program remains on track to wrap up P&A of 16 wells at each installation by year-end 2022.
At the company’s decommissioned Dons complex in the same region, subsea infrastructure removal within the 500-m zone is progressing, with the third and final phase due to finish this month.
EnQuest and its partners continue field development studies for the heavy-oil Bressay and Bentley fields, both potentially candidates for tiebacks to the Kraken Field FPSO. The Bentley team is presently focused on reevaluation of existing subsurface data.
At the Magnus complex in the East Shetland Basin, the North West Magnus well should come online in the next few weeks. A program to enhance production and mitigate risk of future well failures is progressing, with two wells returned to service in the first half of 2022 and further well work planned for the remainder of the year.
The joint venture in the Golden Eagle development in the central UK North Sea has approved two infill wells, with drilling due to start in the fourth quarter, followed by first oil in first-quarter 2023.
EnQuest has conducted initial feasibility and economic screening work for a carbon storage concept and expects to apply for carbon capture and storage license areas accessible from its infrastructure under the North Sea Transition Authority’s UK offshore CCS licensing round.
Finally, the company has started infill drilling from the Seligi-C satellite platform offshore Peninsular Malaysia, with the first horizontal well due onstream shortly.
08.02.2022
