Offshore seismic survey specialist Shearwater on Friday introduced a brand new challenge with the Austrian oil agency OMV for a “pioneering” towed streamer survey with Ocean Bottom Nodes over the Berling gasoline and condensate discovery within the Norwegian Sea.
Spanning 1040 sq.km, this hybrid survey begins in July 2023 and can final for 3 months.
Shearwater’s vessels, SW Tasman and Oceanic Vega, will lead the operations.
SW Tasman will function as an ROV node deployment vessel for first time, following its conversion announced in October, 2022 and can deploy the nodes earlier than Oceanic Vega purchase the multi-Azimuth towed streamer survey.
Irene Waage Basili, CEO of Shearwater, highlighted the significance of the challenge, saying, “By completing the conversion of SW Tasman, Shearwater has adapted our fleet to control more operational factors in-house as we meet the increased demand in the seabed market. We are looking forward to demonstrating our upgraded capabilities to OMV on this innovative towed and OBN hybrid survey.”
OMV’s Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the Berling gasoline and condensate discovery off Norway was permitted by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in June.
OMV submitted the plan to the Norwegian authorities on behalf of the Norwegian Sea license companions in December 2022. The Berling was previously known as the Iris Hades discoveries.
“Berling is one in every of our key pure gasoline improvement initiatives and is geared to extend the share of pure gasoline in our portfolio as outlined in OMV’s Strategy 2030. The gasoline and condensate volumes are anticipated to additional strengthen Norway’s place as an vital European provider of pure gasoline,” Berislav Gaso, Executive Vice President for Energy, OMV AG stated in June.
The Berling manufacturing license space is positioned about 235 km from Kristiansund within the Northwestern a part of Norway, in a mature oil and gasoline province with established infrastructure.
The closest hub is the Equinor-operated Åsgard B platform, roughly 23 km to the southeast. Berling shall be developed via the Asgard B tie-in.
Three manufacturing wells shall be drilled on the Berling area beginning Q3/2026 with anticipated first gasoline and condensate manufacturing in 2028.
The estimated gross recoverable reserves are anticipated to be round a complete of 45 mn boe.
The Berling discoveries within the manufacturing licence 644 (PL 644) space had been made 2018. OMV (Norge) AS is the operator for the event and operations with 30% working curiosity. The license companions are Equinor Energy AS (40%) and DNO Norge AS (30%).
