Valaris awarded jack-up drilling rig contract for Seagull project
Published by Nicholas Woodroof,
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Oilfield Technology,
Valaris will provide the Rowan Gorilla VI (VALARIS JU-248) to drill four firm wells for the development, which is located in the Central North Sea.
The approximately 18-month drilling campaign is scheduled to start 3Q20.
Neptune Energy’s UK Managing Director, Pete Jones, said: “This is an important milestone for the Seagull project and a further demonstration of how the development is progressing at pace, following the award of the SPS and SURF contract to TechnipFMC in July.
“We are pleased to be working again with Valaris which continues to demonstrate strong safety and operational performance.
“Seagull is a very positive example of what our industry is working hard to achieve in terms of MER UK; the project partners have embraced a collaborative, commercially-innovative approach and extended the life of operating assets through the use of existing infrastructure in order to maximise recovery of North Sea hydrocarbons.”
Seagull is a high pressure, high temperature development located on UK licence P1622 Block 22/29C, 17 km south of the BP Operated ETAP Central Processing Facility (CPF). Seagull will be tied back to the ETAP CPF partially utilising existing subsea infrastructure which would otherwise have been decommissioned. Gas from the development will come onshore at the CATS processing terminal at Teesside, while oil will come onshore through the Forties Pipeline System to the Kinneil Terminal, Grangemouth.
The development is expected to initially produce around 50 000 boe/d (80% oil) across its 10-year design life. Proved plus probable gross reserves are estimated at 50 million boe.
Work on the Seagull project has continued at pace since the Field Development Plan (FDP) was submitted to and approved by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) in March this year.
Neptune is the operator of Seagull and has a 35% equity interest. Its JV partners are BP with 50% and JAPEX with 15%. Neptune acquired its 35% interest in Seagull from Apache North Sea Limited in 2018.
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