Ivar Aasen-drilling is underway: – We like to play with the big boys – TU

Today started The Norwegian and partners up production drilling on their Ivar Aasen-fields on the Utsira High in the North Sea.

TU was the occasion with chairman Sverre Skogen and Chief Director Karl Johnny Hersvik on the rig that will drill the wells.

– We are very proud of this project. It has been a fantastic journey, says CEO Karl Johnny Hersvik to TU.

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Starts drilling: CEO Karl Johnny Hersvik and drilling operations Mads Rødsjø in the Norwegian. Photo: Eirik Helland Urke

– We should be the best

Ivar Aasen project is scheduled to come on stream towards the end of 2016. But now the drilling of production wells underway, The Norwegian is proud at a time when oil arrows mostly pointed downward.

Det norske’s ambitions is also not something to say on.

– We are the little brother who likes to play with the big boys. We should be the best on the Norwegian shelf, says drilling operations Mads Rødsjø.

Seiler towards the North Sea in 2016

It is the jack-up rig Maersk Interceptor which will drill the wells in the field. The rig has previously been described as the largest of its kind and also the most automated.

Earlier this summer was the jacket on Ivar Aasen lifted into place. The chassis is 137 meters high and weighs 8900 tonnes.

The topside of Ivar Aasen prevented by SMOE shipyard in Singapore, and is scheduled to sail to the North Sea the first half of 2016. It is expected that production will start in the fourth quarter 2016.

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20 years

Chairman Sverre Skogen started production drilling on Maersk Interceptor. Photo: Eirik Helland Urke

Ivar Aasen field is located west of the Johan Sverdrup field and contains in excess of 200 million boe. This includes Hanz instance, which is not part of the so-called Unitisation Agreement.

In addition, West Cable instance part of the first phase of development.

Norwegian estimates that the lifetime of Ivar Aasen can be 20 years, depending on oil prices and production development.

field is being developed with a manned production platform located above Ivar Aasen reservoir and a subsea installation on Hanz, linked to the Ivar Aasen platform via flowlines and control cables .

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