Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use the Bideford Dolphin for drilling and completing well 34/7-A-10 at the Snorre field in the North Sea.
Drilling is scheduled to begin on 7 July and last 110 days.
Snorre is in the Tampen area of the North Sea, and has been developed using two floating integrated production facilities, Snorre A and B, and one subsea template tied back to Snorre A. Snorre began producing oil in 1992.
Operated by Dolphin Drilling, Bideford Dolphin is a mobile drilling facility of the Aker H-3 type, built at Aker Verdal in 1975 and modified in 1998. The facility is classified by DNV GL and registered in Singapore. Bideford Dolphin was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance by the PSA in September 2004.
Last month, PSA granted Statoil permission to use the Bideford Dolphin to drill a production well at Vigdis in the Norwegian North Sea.
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