Volund Oil Field

Operator: AkerBP
Country: Norway
Location: Central part of the North Sea
Production start: 2008
Partners: Marathon - 65.00 %, Lundin - 35.00 %
Type: Oil / Gas
Estimated Reserves:
- 7.8 million Sm³ oil - 5.2 million Sm³ oil
- 1.0 billion Sm³ gas - 0.8 billion Sm³ gas
Production Volume:
- Oil: 24 000 barrels/day
- Gas: 0.19 billion Sm³

+++ Description

Volund is an oil field located about 10 kilometres south of Alvheim Oil and Gas Field in the central part of the North Sea. The field is developed as a subsea tie-back to the nearby production vessel ”Alvheim FPSO” with three horizontal subsea wells. The water depth in the area is about 120-130 metres.
The wellstream is routed by pipeline to Alvheim Oil and Gas Field for buoy-loading. Associated gas is transported via Alvheim to the Scottish Area Gas Evacuation pipeline system to St Fergus in the United Kingdom

+++ Contractors

**Acergy:** Engineering, procurement, installation, tie-in and pre-commissioning of some 30 kilometres of production, gas lift and water injection pipelines, a control umbilical, a 160 tonne production manifold and a choke and metering structure in addition to the installation, hookup and commissioning of a subsea control system
**Technip:** Engineering, fabrication, installation and diving tie-ins of pipeline spools, including protection covers and installation of a manifold
**KWsubsea:** 12" Pipeline + 4" Gas Lift Line (8.9km each)

+++ History

+++ Geology

The reservoir is in Paleocene sandstone intrusions in the Hermod Formation, which in the Early Eocene age were remobilised and injected into the overlying Balder formation. The reservoir depth is about 2 000 metres.

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