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Location: Blocks 30/2 and 30/3 of the North Sea
Value: US$1 billion
Reserves: 4.9 mmscm of oil, 16.0 bscm of gas and 0.1 million tonnes of natural gas liquids
Start-up Year: November 2001
Water Depth: 125m
The Huldra field is located in blocks 30/2 and 30/3 of the North Sea. Operated by Statoil, the gas and condensate field lies at a depth of 125m and is about 16km away from the company's Veslefrikk field. Statoil owns a 19.87% interest in the field. Other licensees include Petoro (31.95%), Total E&P Norge (24.33%), ConocoPhillips Skandinavia (23.33%) and Talisman Resources (0.49%). about US$1 billion was invested in the development of the field. First production was achieved in November 2001. The field is in the tail end of production, which will end in 2014. The Huldra field was discovered in 1982. 
Three exploration wells drilled between 1979 and 1991 established the presence of gas and condensate. Statoil commenced development of the field in 1999. The field’s reservoir is of the Middle Jurassic age and is situated at a depth of 3,500-3,900m. The high-pressure and high-temperature reservoir is made of Brent Group sandstones in a rotated fault block. It consists of two main segments without pressure communication. The Huldra field's recoverable reserves are estimated at 4.9 million standard cubic metres (scm) of oil, 16.0 billion scm of gas and 0.1 million tons of natural gas liquids. As of December 2009, the reserves stood at 0.1 million scm of oil and 1.1 billion scm of gas. Statoil began drilling operations at the field in 2000. The programme included six production wells. The Mærsk Gallant was contracted to drill the wells, the first of which was spudded in 2000. A gas and condensate discovery was made south of the field in 2000. The discovery was made by an exploration well drilled by the West Alpha drilling rig at a depth of 123m. The well was later plugged and abandoned. In April 2005, Statoil announced its decision to invest Nkr600m to extend the life of the field because dropping reservoir pressure was causing a decline in production. The project included the installation of a new gas compressor module on the platform and the addition of ten cabins.
Decommissioning
The Huldra platform will be regularly maintained until the West Epsilon drilling rig arrives at Huldra in 2016 for permanent well plugging, and project activities will also be carried out during this period. The field will not be fully decommissioned before 2019 and no later than 2021. 
Contracts
Vetco Aibel was awarded a Nkr320m contract to install the compressor module on the Huldra platform. Dresser Rand supplied the LM2500 gas turbine-driven combined compressor and generator train. It also supplied a four-shaft gearbox, D-R compressor and ABB generator, lube oil console and rundown tank. A unit control panel featuring a Woodward atlas fuel controller, an ABB generator excitation module and the D-R RECON remote monitoring module was also supplied by the company. The contract for transporting and installing the compressor module was awarded to Saipem.
Operators:
Statoil: Operator with 19.87% interest 
Petoro: 31.95% interest 
Total E&P Norge: 24.33% interest 
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia: 23.33% interest
Talisman Resources: 0.49% interest
Contractors:
Aker Solutions: Well services
Aibel: Supplier of maintenance and modification services
Bilfinger Industrier Norge: Provide insulation, scaffolding and surface treatment (painting) services 
Dresser Rand: Supply of the LM2500 gas turbine-driven combined compressor, generator train, a four-shaft gearbox, D-R compressor and ABB generator, lube oil console and rundown tank
Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland SE: Removal, transportation, disposal and recycling of the Huldra platform. (April 2016)
AF Offshore Decom AS, (subsidiary of AF Gruppen ASA): Disposal and recycling of the platform. (April 2016)
Saipem: Transporting and installing the compressor module
Vetco Aibel: Install the compressor module on the Huldra platform
Ziebel: Distributed fibre-optic (DFO) sensing campaign on the Huldra platform. Ziebel gathered distributed temperature and distributed acoustic fibre-optic data on Statoil's first unmanned platform using its new gravity-deployed carbon composite cable Z-Line.
Claxton: to provide ‘rigless recovery’ of seven abandoned wells on the Huldra platform. Claxton will be responsible for the full scope of the decommissioning work including planning, severance, and full multiple string recovery. (August, 2016)
North Atlantic Drilling: Contract for the West Epsilon jack-up rig. Final phase of the contract cancelled in September 2016.