Production has restarted from Aker BP's Tambar platform, offshore Norway, where a man died last week after in serious incident on the rig, which remains under investigation.
Tambar is about 16km southeast of Ula facilities in 68m water depth in the Norwegian North Sea. It is produced via a normally unmanned wellhead platform, remotely controlled from Ula.
Production was shut in following an incident on the Maersk Interceptor jackup drilling rig on Thursday, 7 December, in which a Maersk Drilling worker died. The rig was drilling production wells on the Tambar field. A second man was injured during the incident and production was shut in.
Aker BP said that project activities, well service activities and other activities that are not related to investigation of the accident on Maersk Interceptor "will gradually resume in a controlled manner. As a step in this work, production from the Tambar field was started up again on Tuesday."
Partner Faroe Petroleum says the Tambar infill and gas lift installation program has also restarted.
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