Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Repsol Norge consent to use the Rowan Stavanger jackup for permanent plugging of wells on the Varg field.
Rowan Stavanger. Image from Rowan. |
The wells to be plugged are in production license 038, which is in the southern sector of the North Sea, around 230km south-west of Stavanger.
Planned start-up of the operation is 1 September 2017, with an expected duration of approximately 208 days.
Varg is an oil field in the North Sea, around 220km south-west of Utsira in Rogaland county. The field was developed using the Varg A wellhead facility, subsea structures and the Petrojarl Varg mobile production facility (FPSO). Production from the field began in 1998.