Planned shutdown at Snøhvit Field
2008.10.05 -
Projects
Production from the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea is due to stop on 4 October for a planned 30 days to replace two heat exchangers at the gas liquefaction plant. A number of other heat exchangers of the same type but of varying sizes are also due for inspection during the shutdown in order to monitor their condition.The equipment to be removed from the Melkøya facility outside Hammerfest in northern Norway was new when Snøhvit came on stream about a year ago.
However, the design criteria for these components have since changed. The two new units are constructed to last for the producing life of the field.
Although new heat exchangers were ordered in early 2008, a long delivery period meant that they could not be replaced during the turnaround this summer.
The FPSO Sevan Piranema has today commenced oil production on the Piranema field, off the coast of Aracaju, in the state of Sergipe, Brasil.
Q is located in Mississippi Canyon block 961. The natural gas field is developed as a subsea tieback to the Anadarko-operated Independence Hub facility in the eastern US Gulf of Mexico. StatoilHydro has a 50% working interest in the Q field.
The Piranema field, 25 km off the coast of Sergipe, started producing oil this Wednesday (10/10), in deep Northeastern Brazil waters. With operations going online in this field, Petrobras is taking another step towards maintaining Brazil’s oil self-sufficiency. The Piranema oil, of excellent quality, at 44º API, is the lightest oil produced in deep waters in Brazil.
The first tanker with a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Snøhvit field left port at Melkøya near Hammerfest, northern Norway
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited, has started production from the Marimba North project, designed to develop 80 million barrels of oil in approximately 3,900 feet (1,300 meters) of water more than 90 miles (145 kilometers) off the coast of Angola.
