Statoil is planning to increase the oil recovery rate from its Oseberg East field offshore Norway with a new development drilling campaign, scheduled to commence in mid-2015.
The company will use Prosafe Offshore’s Safe Scandinavia support vessel for the campaign.
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Statoil said the vessel, which is currently a flotel, will be modified to enable it to store and treat drilling fluid and cuttings once drilling operations start.
Statoil development and production Norway senior vice-president Kjetil Hove said: "We are expecting to increase the recovery rate on Oseberg Øst from around 20% to up to 30% when we drill the first planned wells.
"We also have the possibility of drilling more wells and further increasing the recovery rate towards 40%, which is almost double the rate in the plan for development and operation."
Statoil, the operator of the field, has 49.3% share in the exploration license.
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By GlobalDataThe other partners are state-owned Petoro with 33.6%, Total E&P Norge with 14.7% and ConocoPhillips Skandinavia with 2.4%.
Oseberg East is the smallest of the platforms in the Oseberg area in the North Sea, holding 41.5 million barrels of recoverable oil.
The field development plan includes a drilling, accommodation and production platform with phase one processing equipment.
Image: Oseberg Øst is the smallest of the platforms in the Oseberg area. Photo: courtesy of Øyvind Hagen.
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