Hurricane Energy achieves first lifting from Lancaster field
The company's first cargo from the Lancaster field, offshore Shetland, UK, was sold on 18 June and marketed by BP Oil International Ltd.
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The company's first cargo from the Lancaster field, offshore Shetland, UK, was sold on 18 June and marketed by BP Oil International Ltd.
The drilling programme for well 25/2-20 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 442. Aker BP ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 90.26%.
The discovery was made in exploration well Snadd Outer Outer/Black Vulture in production licence 159B in the Norwegian Sea.
DeltaTek’s SeaCure service provides stabbed-in, inner string cementing for subsea wells.
The single-lift operation took 2 hours to complete from positioning the vessel Pioneering Spirit around the 3800 t platform to the moment of the lift.
The Mærsk Innovator is now firmly contracted to continue drilling infill wells at the Buzzard field on the UK Continental Shelf until February 2020.
Phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup development was approved by Norwegian authorities in May 2019, with start-up scheduled for 4Q22.
Since 1996, the Sleipner field in the North Sea has been used as a facility for carbon capture and storage by Equinor as operator and a group of partnering companies.
The decommissioning project in the Schooner and Ketch fields will start immediately with a plan to commence offshore operations at the end of 2019.
PGNiG Upstream Norway and its partners decided to move to the select phase of the project, during which key technical decisions regarding the field development will be made.
Production start at the King Lear field, located in the North Sea, is planned for 2025.
The combined flow from both wells during a 72-hour production test earlier this week reached and maintained the planned production rate of 20 000 bpd.