Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) says that Aker BP is approved to use the Transocean Arctic to drill two production wells on the Alvheim field in the North Sea.
The two wells are designated 24/6-A-6 and 24/6-A-7 and are to be drilled in Boa, which is one of the four reservoirs comprising the Alvheim field.
Alvheim is close to the boundary with the UK sector and west of Bømlo in Hordaland county. The field has been developed using subsea wellhead templates which are tied back to the Alvheim FPSO production vessel.
Transocean Arctic is a semisubmersible mobile drilling facility of the Marosso 56 type, built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan in 1987. It was upgraded in 2004, is classified by DNV GL and registered in the Marshall Islands.
Image of the Transocean Arctic, from Transocean.
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