(With videos) Aker Solutions and Kvaerner have won a contract from Statoil for the hook-up of the riser platform for the Johan Sverdrup field, Norway's largest offshore development in the past three decades.
Both companies will work closely together on joining together the platform's seven modules, which will be transported to Norway in the second quarter of 2018. The contract value is approximately NOK 900 million (over EUR 100 million) and will be split about equally between Aker Solutions and Kvaerner.
The scope also covers planning, management and prefabrication and hook-up options for the field's processing and living quarter platforms, which are scheduled to be installed in 2019. The work starts in February and will initially involve about 100 people from Aker Solutions, Kvaerner and Statoil, rising to as many as 1000 people at its peak next year. Most of the work will be carried out in Stavanger and offshore.
Johan Sverdrup Oil Field Videos
The Johan Sverdrup oil field is one of the five biggest oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf with expected resources of between 1.9-3 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The field is located at the Utsira Height in the North Sea, 160 kilometres west of Stavanger in water depths of 110-120 metres. Oil from the field will be piped to the Mongstad terminal in Hordaland. Gas will be transported via Statpipe to the Kårstø processing plant in North Rogaland.
The field will be operated by electrical power generated onshore, reducing offshore emissions of climate gases by eighty-ninety per cent compared to a standard development utilising gas turbines on the NCS. Production start for Phase One is planned for late 2019.
The video by Statoil below shows how the platforms will be constructed and installed. The second video was made by Kongsberg and gives information on safety, automation and lifecycle simulation technology that is to be used at the Johan Sverdrup oil field.
Picture: The Johan Sverdrup oil field (by Statoil).
