Aibel has been chosen to conduct a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for Statoil's Oseberg Future Development Brownfield Topside project.
The Oseberg Future Development Brownfield Topside project involves connecting what would be Norway's first new unmanned wellhead platform (UWP) to the Oseberg B platform, about 130km north west of Bergen.
The wellhead platform, chosen over a subsea development, will also be linked to the Oseberg A platform, for power, control and chemical injection. The project will also see modifications to the Oseberg field centre, related to connection of Kappa wells to Oseberg via the existing Vestflanken pipeline.
Work on the FEED study has started and will continue until October, says Aibel. An eventual EPCI contract (engineering services, procurement, construction and installation) would start around the turn of the year and continue until the end of 2017.
The Oseberg field was discovered in Block 30/6 and 30/9 in 1979 by the Deepsea Saga rig. First production was in 1988. The Oseberg field centre includes three platforms, Oseberg A, B and D, connected to one another with bridges, and the Oseberg C platform, which lies 14km to the north.
“Previous modification contracts for Oseberg have given us valuable experience that will be extremely useful in this project. By delivering a good and thorough study, we will prove that we are the best partner for the implementation of the EPCI project as well,” says Aibel's EVP for Modifications, Jan Ståle Skår.
Aibel says the contract gives an opening for the subsequent EPCI contract.
The project will be managed from Aibel's new office in Bergen, where up to 29 associates will be involved in the study phase. If Aibel is given the go-ahead to implement the realization phase, the project will amount to a total of 165,000 man-hours and commit 45 associates on average.
Image: The Oseberg field centre. Photo from Statoil
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