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Aasta Hansteen gas field Norway
The Aasta Hansteen gas field is located on Blocks 6706/12, 6707/10, approximately 300 kilometres offshore in the
Vøring area, and is due on stream in December 2016. Statoil serves as the operator with 75% interest, with partners
ExxonMobil (15%) and ConocoPhillips (10%) holding the remaining interest.
Dockwise secures Aasta Hansteen
contract offshore Norway
Statoil has awarded Dockwise with the spar buoy
transport contract for its Aasta Hansteen (formerly Luva)
offshore production field.
Weighing 45,000 tonnes and measuring 200 metres by 50
metres, the spar buoy will be transported on the Dockwise
Vanguard from either Korea or Finland, subject to yard
choice, to Norway in 2015. Dockwise also secured contracts
for the transport of four drilling rigs to Rotterdam, Saudi
Arabia and Singapore, all for the first half of 2012, and a
single load of barges to Brazil in the second quarter 2012.
The value of all six new contracts totals US$57 million. The
Dockwise Vanguard vessel is currently under construction,
with delivery expected in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Technip wins FEED contract for Luva Platform
Technip has been awarded a lump sum FEED (front-end
engineering design) contract by Statoil ASA for the development
of the Luva floating platform, in the Aasta Hansteen gas field,
offshore Norway, at a water depth of approximately 1,300 metres.
The contract covers the design and planning for procurement,
construction and transportation of a Spar hull and the mooring
systems, as well as the design of the steel catenary risers. The
award builds on the study work, including pre-FEED, which has
Wood Group to manage North Sea
floater for Premier Oil in contract
worth US$396 million
Premier Oil has awarded Wood Group PSN a contract for operations
and maintenance support services to the Balmoral FPV (floating
production vessel) in the central North Sea, offshore UK.
Under the US$396 million life-of-field contract, Wood Group PSN
will provide onshore and offshore operations and maintenance,
including management of selected procurement and logistics
support. The brownfield services specialist will execute the contract
from Aberdeen through an operations team based in Premier Oil’s
offices, with the project estimated to run through to 2020. Wholly
operated by Premier Oil, the semisubmersible production vessel is
stationed 196 kilometres northeast of Aberdeen and exports production
from the Balmoral, Beauly, Brenda, Burghley, Nicol, and Sterling fields.
Salt Separation Services awarded Potable
Water Package for ATP Cheviot project
Salt Separation Services has recently been awarded a
contract for the design, manufacture and commissioning of
the Potable Water Package by COSCO Shipyard for ATP Oil and
Gas’ Cheviot field development, offshore UK.
been ongoing since early 2010 to document the suitability of a
Spar platform in Norwegian waters.
Technip’s operating centre in Houston, Texas will execute the
contract in cooperation with the Technip operation centres in
Norway and Finland.
Aker Solutions lands Aasta Hansteen
FEED contract from Statoil
Aker Solutions has been awarded a FEED (front-end
engineering and design) contract from Statoil to design the
world’s largest Spar platform for the Aasta Hansteen field
development. With a total hull length of 193 meters and
a draught of 170 meters, the Aasta Hansteen (formerly
Luva) Spar platform will be the first Spar platform on the
Norwegian continental shelf, and also the world’s first to
capable of condensate storage capacity.
Known as a Belly-Spar due to the Aker’s patented design,
the platform has a distinctively increased diameter on part
of the circular shaped hull to accommodate the condensate
storage tanks. The facility will be equipped with steel
centenary risers which are made of self-supporting steel
pipes in a bow shape between the platform and the seabed.
Compensating for the motions on the floating facility the
design is capable of withstanding the harsh conditions at the
field, which is located in a water depth of 1300 metres.
The FEED study is due to be completed in the third quarter of
2012, with the contract value left undisclosed.
Equipment comprising the package will be capable of producing
1.1m3/hr of potable water and 0.75m3/hr of demineralised water
from seawater. COSCO Shipyard has awarded the contract from
the Nantong yard, in China’s Jiangsu province. The ATP Cheviot
platform is a floating facility and will be installed offshore, in the
UK sector of the North Sea, as part of the redevelopment of the
previously abandoned Cheviot field.
Straddling blocks 2/10b, 2/15a and 3/11b in the northern North
Sea, the field is located approximately 100 kilometres east of the
Shetland Isles, at a water depth of 150 meters. ATP is the owner
and operator of the field with 100% interest.
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