Yme Oil Field

The Yme field was discovered and originally developed by Statoil and produced from 1996 to 2001. The field was abandoned in a time of low oil prices after having produced 51 million barrels of oil (15% recovery of original oil in place).
The production license was subsequently relinquished and a new license group in PL316 consisting of Talisman Energy Norge AS (70% and operator), Revus Energy ASA (20%) and Pertra ASA (10%) has been formed to redevelop the field. The PL316 license is located in Block 9/2 and 9/5, approximately 100 kilometres from the Norwegian coastline.

The infrastructure includes a leased jack-up rig equipped with drilling and production facilities and re-used existing facilities on the field.
Nine wells pre-drilled in 2009-2010 were re-used and six additional wells were drilled
A new subsea template is was installed nearby the existing template
The field will be produced by pressure support from partial water injection and water alternating gas (WAG) injection.

The Yme Field was to be redeveloped with a total of 12 production and injection wells. The Yme Re-development Project was based on a MOPUstor, which is a Mobile Offshore Production Unit with a subsea storage tank. This project was cancelled following problems with the platform

**SBM:** Provision and lease of a new-build production facility
**Technip:**
- engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of 36km of production, water injection and service rigid flowlines
- installation of umbilicals, spools, subsea protection structures, a manifold, and
- tie-in, trenching, rock dumping and pre-commissioning.
**KWSubsea:** 10" Pipeline, 6" Water Injection + 4" Service Line (12km each)
**Nessco:** Communication systems

1996 - Production started
2001 - Production halted
2004 - The Yme field was awarded in the 18th Licensing Round
2007 - Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the Yme Field submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
2007 - Technip awarded contract for the Yme field re-development
2009 - NAEDC acquired a 10% interest in each of the production licenses for the Yme oil field
2011 - MOPU arrived at the field
2013 - MOPU project cancelled
2016 - The MOPU was removed
2021 - Production was restarted

Yme contains two separate main structures, Gamma and Beta, comprising five deposits. The reservoir is in Middle Jurassic sandstones in the Sandnes Formation, at a depth of approximately 3,150 metres. They are heterogeneous and have variable reservoir properties.

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