Maersk Oil lets contract for Culzean field development
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd. has let a multimillion-pound contract to DNV GL for the Culzean field development project in the UK North Sea.
The scope includes independent competent person verification, independent verification body, pressure equipment directive, and the explosive atmospheres directive ATEX services. The team will be managed from the UK and DNV GL will use additional resources and expertise from its team in Denmark to deliver the work.
Culzean is a high-pressure, high-temperature field discovered in 2008 on Block 22/25 and appraised between 2009 and 2011 (OGJ Online, Jan. 30, 2009; Mar. 10, 2011). If successfully developed, it could provide about 5% of the UK’s total gas consumption by 2020-21, DNV GL says. Production from the project is expected in 2019.
Maersk Oil and co-venturers JX Nippon E&P (UK) Ltd. and Britoil (BP) have chosen a new standalone facility to develop the discovery, a complex of bridge linked platforms comprising a 12 slot wellhead platform, a central processing facility, and utilities-living quarters. Two front-end engineering and design contracts were let earlier this year (OGJ Online, May 29, 2014; Aug. 12, 2014).
Subject to a final investment decision in 2015, a phased installation of the facilities would begin in 2016.