Statoil sets course for Mariner project

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By Rob Watts London

 19 July 2012 22:59 GMT

Norway’s Statoil has taken another step forward with its Mariner heavy-oil development in the UK North Sea after completing front-end engineering and design and submitting an environmental impact assessment to the authorities.

Statoil said in the papers that the development proposal at Mariner includes 50 wells and 92 sidetracks, comprising 76 production wells, 64 produced water re-injectors, a make-up water well and a waste disposal well.

A further four wells will be drilled separately to develop the nearby Mariner East field.

All will be tied to the production, drilling and quarters platform, linked to a floating storage and offloading unit, with which Statoil is proposing to develop the field.

Upstream reported earlier this year that four teams of inter­national contractors are battling to engineer the 26,000-tonne…

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