Equinor Energy AS has been granted consent by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate for start-up of North Sea Breidablikk field, which lies 10 km northeast of Equinor-operated Grane field and west of Haugesund, Norway. Production is expected to begin in October, ahead of the original first-quarter 2024 plan.
The field is a subsea development in 130 m of water with four subsea templates, each with six well slots, and tied back to the Grane platform (OGJ Online, June 29, 2021). It includes two discoveries, D-structure and F-structure, discovered in 1992 and 2013, respectively. The main reservoirs contain oil in Paleocene sandstone in the Heimdal formation at a depth of 1,700 m. The reservoirs are of good quality, with little variation in reservoir properties.
Breidablikk contains around 30 million std cu m of recoverable oil (about 190 million bbl). Total investments are around NOK 19 billion.
Equinor is operator at Breidablikk (39%) with partners Vår Energi ASA (34.4%), Petoro AS (22.2%), and ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (4.4%).
