World vitality know-how firm Schlumberger NV (SLB) stated its three way partnership with Aker Options ASA and Subsea7 SA, OneSubsea, secured an engineering, procurement, and development contract from Equinor ASA. SLB stated it can ship all-electric subsea manufacturing programs for 12 wells within the Fram Sor mission offshore Norway.
The award acknowledges a collaborative year-long front-end engineering design section wherein Equinor and SLB OneSubsea collectively superior the mission, ending with a improvement plan and ultimate funding determination (FID).
As a part of the EPC scope, SLB OneSubsea will provide 4 subsea templates and 12 all-electric subsea bushes, eradicating the necessity for hydraulic fluid from the host platform and minimizing topside modifications. This technique affords a cheap answer whereas preserving topside house for future enlargement tasks within the space, SLB stated.
“Fram Sor is a breakthrough mission for our trade, marking the primary large-scale all-electric subsea manufacturing system”, Mads Hjelmeland, chief govt officer of SLB OneSubsea, stated. “Not solely do all-electric subsea options considerably scale back topside must make large-scale tiebacks such because the Fram Sor improvement doable, however in addition they maintain the important thing to unlock extra marginal assets by way of their decreased footprint and simplified operations”.
The mission is envisioned as a subsea tieback to the Troll C platform within the North Sea.
SLB stated the contract is topic to the regulatory approval of the plan for improvement and operations.
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