Sleipner gearing up to give Gudrun a warm welcome

Gudrun: view of the deck of the Sleipner A platform, where modifications are being fitted to receive oil and gas from the Gudrun development

BEATE SCHJOLBERG

By BEATE SCHJOLBERG Sleipner field North Sea

 28 June 2012 22:59 GMT

AT THE Norwegian Sleipner A platform there is bustling activity with only a handful of its 240 beds vacant.

The Statoil-operated facility, located in the middle of the North Sea near the border of the UK sector, is getting ready to receive oil and gas from the Gudrun development, due on stream in early 2014.

The main Sleipner platform is getting 764 tonnes of new equipment fitted to receive oil and gas from Gudrun and the associated Brynhild satellite.

Except for a planned 21-day turnaround in August, production at Sleipner will continue as normal during the construction period.

On the 55-kilometre stretch between Sleipner and Gudrun, Saipem’s Castoro 7 pipelay barge is pulled…

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