Norwegian company Aker BP has received consent from Petroleum Safety Authority to use Transocean Arctic to drill two production wells in the Alvheim field.
Named 24/6-A-6 and 24/6-A-7, the two wells will be drilled in Boa, one of the four reservoirs of the Alvheim field.
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Built by Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1987, Transocean Arctic is a semi-submersible mobile drilling facility of the Marosso 56 type.
The drilling facility was upgraded in 2004, classified by DNV GL and registered in the Marshall Islands.
In the same year, Petroleum Safety Authority issued the acknowledgement of compliance (AoC) for the facility, which is currently operated by Transocean.
Alvheim oil and gas field is located in the North Sea at the west of Bømlo in Hordaland county. It was developed by using subsea wellhead templates, which are tied=back to the Alvheim FPSO production vessel.
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By GlobalDataAs well as the main field Alvheim, the project also has three other satellite fields, namely, Bøyla, Vilje and Volund.
The main field Alvheim hosts the Kneler, Boa, Kamelon, East Kamelon structures along with the Viper-Kobra and Gekko discoveries, which became operational in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Situated at water depths of nearly 120m-130m, Alvheim started production in 2008.
Aker BP owns a 65% interest in the project along with the operatorship, while the remaining stake is with ConocoPhillips (20%) and Lundin Norway (15%).
Image: Alvheim FPSO. Photo: © Aker BP.
