Statoil receives consent to use Songa Encourage for well activities

The Alve field, which is 16 kilometres southwest of Norne, and other satellite fields are tied back to the Norne facility.

Statoil has received consent to use the Songa Encourage mobile drilling facility to perform well activities on these fields. The activities include drilling wells for production or injection, well overhaul and other intervention work, as well as plugging.

Songa Encourage is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the Cat D type, owned and operated by Songa Offshore. It was built by the Daewoo yard in South Korea in 2016, is registered in Norway and classified by DNV GL. Songa Encourage was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in April 2016.