Visund South Oil and Gas Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Statoil
  • Country: Norway
  • Location: In the North Sea between the Visund and Gullfaks fields
  • Production start: 2012
  • Partners: Statoil 53.2%, Total 7.7%, Petoro 30.0% and ConocoPhillips 9.1%
  • Type: Oil & Gas
  • Estimated Reserves: 67 mboe (1/4 oil and 3/4 gas)
  • Production Volume:

+++ Description

  • Visund South consists of the Pan and Pandora discoveries, which are located 10 kilometres from both the Gullfaks C and Visund A-platforms and have been developed by means of a subsea installation.
  • This consists of a template and four wells, where the first of three wells have been drilled and tied back to Gullfaks C for processing.

+++ Contractors

  • **FMC Technologies:**
    • manufacture of four subsea production trees, wellheads, choke modules and subsea control modules.
    • supply one manifold structure and associated tools and control systems.
  • **ClampOn:** Subsea monitors

+++ History

  • 2008 - Visund South Oil And Gas Field discovered
  • 2012 - Visund South comes on stream

+++ Geology

  • Reservoir: Two structures, Pan and Pandora, with reservoir pressure of roughly 340 bar

+++ Links

  1. FMC Technologies Awarded $70 Million Pan Pandora Contract
  2. ClampOn Subsea Sand Monitors to Pan Pandora
  3. Visund South comes on stream