Statoil out of blocks at Hyme

Online: the Hyme fast-track field tied back to Njord A

STATOIL

Steve Marshall

 25 February 2013 11:41 GMT

Statoil has started production from its fast-track Hyme field in the Norwegian Sea one month faster than planned, making it the second of 12 scheduled projects to be brought on stream.

The field in the Haltenbanken area, discovered in 2009, is being developed as a subsea tieback to the modified Njord A platform nearby in 250 metres of water using a subsea template with four well slots for a total investment of Nkr4.5 billion ($800 million).

“This development will revitalise the entire area, open for further expansion and increase the production life of Njord,” said Statoil’s head of the fast-track programme off Norway, Halfdan Knudsen.

The state-owned operator is looking to exploit recoverable reserves of 30 million barrels of oil equivalent at Hyme and…

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