Eni’s pioneering Goliat project in the Barents Sea could see start-up delayed to the late autumn or early winter as a significant amount of commissioning work remains on the floating production unit.
Before summer, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) expressed doubts that the Italian operator would achieve its goal of starting production by 31 July.
Eni soon followed with a revised and less specific target of “late summer”.
However,