Visund Oil and Gas Field

Summary Information

+++ Description

The Visund field is located in block 34/8, about 22 km north of the Gullfaks field on the Norwegian continental shelf.
Production is from the Visund Floating Production Unit (FPU)
The field initially produced only oil but the platform was altered, a gas pipeline was installed and gas production started in 2005
The northern part of the Visund field is developed with a subsea template, about 10 kilometres north of Visund A
The water depth at the work sites ranges from 190m to 335m.
The oil is sent by pipeline to Gullfaks A for storage and export via tankers.
Gas is exported through the Kvitebjørn gas pipeline and on to Kollsnes Gas Processing Plant, where the NGL is separated and the dry gas is further exported to the market.

+++ Contractors

**ABB:**
- Construction of Visund Platform
- Design, construction and installation of two large modules - one containing equipment to increase gas injection rate and raise oil production, the other to allow gas exports
**Saipem:** Pipelines - EPIC
**Subsea 7:** detail design, fabrication and installation of riser base, protection structure, Pipeline End Manifold (PLEM) and tie-in spool of the Visund Gas Export System
**Emtunga:** Mud laboratory
**Emerson:** Design, configure, and install the new safety and automation systems

+++ History

+++ Geology

The Visund field contains oil and gas in several tilted fault blocks with varying pressure and liquid systems.
The reservoirs are in Middle Jurassic sandstones in the Brent Group and Lower Jurassic and Upper Triassic sandstones in the Statfjord and Lunde Formations.
The reservoirs lie at a depth of 2 900 - 3 000 metres.

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