A year on and Statoil is in the loop at Peregrino

By Beate Schjolberg Oslo

 13 April 2012 01:32 GMT

A year after Statoil first turned on the taps at its Peregrino development off Brazil, several tankfuls of the field’s slow-flowing, syrupy oil have made their way over to Norway to help the operator save money as it plans the next development phase.

At the Heroya industrial park in eastern Norway, most known for its fertiliser and chemicals ­factories, the flow properties of the viscous oil are being tested and re-tested in a recently-rebuilt flow loop at a Statoil research ­facility.

The aim is to find out whether Statoil can use subsea pipelines to send oil from the second phase at Peregrino to the existing floating production and storage vessel on the field — a solution that could save Statoil and partner Sinochem hundreds of millions of dollars compared with ­deploying a second FPSO on…

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