Statoil and Wood Group Mustang Norway (WGMN) completed the hook-up of the Valemon platform in the North Sea.
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WGMN teamed with the Korean engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), to provide detailed engineering support for the topsides, in addition to delivery of the flare boom and providing hook-up and commissioning assistance.
Valemon, located on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), is the second Statoil-operated platform to be put into production in the last nine months. The US$2.9 billion high-pressure, high-temperature, gas and condensate development started first production at the beginning of January.
The Valemon field contains an estimated 192 MMboe recoverable reserves and is being produced by what will become Statoil's first platform remotely controlled from shore, turning into a "normally unmanned platform" when drilling the 10 production wells on the field is completed in 2017.
"The Valemon platform is the first to be delivered directly from a fabricator in Asia to installation offshore on the NCS and is a credit to the Statoil, SHI and WGMN teams that collaborated so well together," says Otto Søberg, WGMN president. "Safe, efficient hook-up was critical to bringing the platform online successfully and the more than 1000 people involved in the hook-up process accomplished that with zero lost-time incidents."
Statoil operates Valemon with 53.77% interest, with partners Petoro (30 %), Centrica Resources (13%), and Norske Shell (3.23%).
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