First oil on EnQuest's Kraken heavy oil field in the UK North Sea is on track for 1H 2017 after the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the project set out for a deepwater anchorage.
Vessel operator Bumi Armada Berhad said the Armada Kraken FPSO had completed its shore-based commissioning activities at the quayside at Keppel Offshore & Marine in Singapore and had also completed the vessel’s inclination testing program.
The FPSO, Bumi's first FPSO set for the North Sea, has set sail to a deep water anchorage, to undertake commissioning work on the water injection pumps, HSP power fluid pumps, sulphate reduction packages, lifeboats and fire, water and deluge systems.
Sailaway to the North Sea is on schedule this quarter as planned. The journey from Singapore to the Kraken field is expected to take approximately 50 days and the unit is expected to deliver first oil in 1H 2017.
In September, EnQuest said it had cut the cost of the Kraken development by a further US$150 million, thanks to progress on the drilling campaign and subsea workscopes.
The cost of the development, was to be reduced to about $2.9 billion, said the firm. Costs on the project had already been reduced by $425 million, since project sanction.