Project Profile
Gross Value: US$2.6 billion
Location: Block 9/2b, East Shetland Platform, west of the North Viking Graben
Area: 134 sq km
Peak production: 50,000 bpd (expected)
Start-up Year: 1st half 2017
The Kraken heavy oil discovery in Block 9/2b holds up to 70m bbl, best estimate is put at 160 m bbl and a high estimate at 311m bbl. The initial analysis of samples recovered from the appraisal suggests the Kraken reservoir contains 18.4 degree API oil. The rates of 35,000 bpd are expected when production of the discovery begins. The field is to be developed using a FPSO vessel.
Mermaid is a large prospect analogous to the nearby Mariner multi-well discovery, and has been delineated on reprocessed 3D. The prospect contains estimated resources of 129m bbl of oil.
Operators:
EnQuest: Operator with 70.5% interest
Cairn Energy : 29.5% interest
Contractors:
Aker Solutions: Supply subsea equipment
Awilco Drilling Limited: WilHunter - Rig Contract
Bumi Armada: Supply a floating production, storage and offloading unit
Diamond Offshore Drilling (U.K.) Ltd.: Ocean Nomad Semisub – Rig Contract
OHM Limited: CSEM survey
SPX Corporation: Supply oil well production pumps
Technip: Engineering, procurement, and installation on the project 400 kilometres north-east of Aberdeen. The group’s spoolbase in Evanton will weld and load-out the rigid pipe while Technip Umbilicals and its subsidiary in Newcastle will manufacture the umbilical. All construction work on the project will be carried out by diverless construction methods. A number of vessels from the Technip fleet will be utilized for the offshore campaign, including Technip’s Deep Energy, one of the largest pipelay vessels ever built.
Keppel Shipyard: Contract to convert an FPSO for EnQuest’s Kraken heavy-oil field development in the UK northern North Sea with work scope including refurbishment and life extension works, upgrading of living quarters to accommodate 90 personnel, installation of an internal turret mooring system, and installation and integration of topside process modules.
Sub Contractor:
Wärtsilä: Supply a 62-MW topside power generation package
Petrofac: Contract to support maintenance management system (MMS) implementation