Martin Linge
Martin Linge topsides arrive in Stavanger
March 29, 2018: The Martin Linge topside modules arrived in Stavanger on board the Black Marlin heavy transport vessel. The two modules weigh 20 000 tonnes combined. In late July they will be installed offshore together with the living quarters and flaring module.
Until then the vessel with the modules will be docked at Rosenberg WorleyParsons in Stavanger, where the modules will be prepared for the heavy lift. Statoil became operator for the Martin Linge project 19 March 2018.
The Martin Linge field in the North Sea is an oil and gas discovery that was made in 1975. The field is located 42 kilometres west of Oseberg, at a water depth of 115 metres. Statoil became the operator of the Martin Linge field and Garantiana discovery in a transaction completed on March 19, 2018.
New wells drilled in the following years confirmed that this was a complex, high-pressure area, consisting of an oil reservoir at 2000 metres depth and a sizeable gas reservoir at 4000 metres depth.
In 2010, the then operator Total drilled a new well that gave important information. This knowledge, combined with innovation and use of advanced technology, made it possible to develop Martin Linge, a field with estimated recoverable reserves at around 300 million barrels of oil equivalent (oil and gas).
The field development concept includes an integrated wellhead, production and accommodation platform with a jacket, in addition to an oil storage vessel. When the field comes on stream, the gas will flow through a new pipeline connecting the field to the existing pipeline to St. Fergus in Scotland. The oil will be processed on the storage vessel and transported from the field in shuttle tankers.
The Martin Linge installations will receive land-based electricity. The field will be operated from land and have a limited offshore staff.
The plan for development and operation for Martin Linge (formerly named Hild) was submitted to the authorities in January 2012 and approved by Stortinget (the Norwegian Parliament) in June 2012.
Operator: Statoil Petroleum AS
Location: 42 kilometres west of Oseberg
Estimated production start: 2019
Production: Oil and gas