Offshore staff
LYSAKER, Norway — The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has granted Aker BP a license to connect the platforms in the Yggdrasil development area in the northern North Sea to the power grid in Samnanger in Vestland County.
This should ensure a stable and secure power supply to the area, Aker BP said, with low emissions of less than 1 kg/CO2 per produced oil equivalent.
The power from shore project, a joint venture with Yggdrasil partners Equinor and LOTOS Exploration & Production, will include a new transformer station at Børdalen in Samnanger; an 11-km 145-kV powerline in Samnanger; a compensation station in Årskog in Fitjar; and a 250-km, 145-kV subsea power cable from Samnanger to the field development area.
Yggdrasil (ex-NOAKA), encompassing the Hugin, Fulla and Munin license groups, extends over an area between the Alvheim and Oseberg production complexes. Aker BP’s development plan, submitted late last year, covers various discoveries with combined reserves of about 650 MMboe, with projected investments totaling NOK115 billion ($10.93 billion).
Facilities will include an unmanned production platform to the north developed by Equinor (Munin) and a processing platform with well area and living quarters developed by Aker BP (Hugin A) to the south.
Hugin A will receive and stabilize produced oil, provide treatment of produced water to Munin, and supply water for injection to the subsea production facilities.
The Frøy Field will have a normally unmanned wellhead platform (Hugin B) connected to Hugin A. Yggdrasil’s subsea development will comprise nine templates, pipelines and umbilicals, and 55 wells.
Gas will be exported through a shared pipeline from Hugin A via Munin to Statpipe and Kårstø, while oil will be exported through a shared pipeline from Hugin A to the Grane oil pipeline and Stureterminalen.
04.12.2023
