Bøyla Oil Field

Summary Information

• Operator: AkerBP
• Country: Norway
• Location: 200 kilometres west of Haugesund
• Production start: 2015
• Partners: Det Norske (65 per cent), ConocoPhillips (20 per cent) and Lundin (15 per cent)
• Type: Oil & Gas
• Estimated Reserves: 23 million barrels of oil equivalent
• Production Volume:

Description

• The Bøyla field is located in block 24/9 in the northern part of the North Sea
• The water depth at the site is approx. 120 metres.
• The development solution is a subsea installation consisting of two horizontal production wells and one water injection well.
• These are tied in to the Alvheim FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) for further transport and processing.

Contractors

• **Technip:**
  • fabrication and reeled installation of a pipe-in-pipe production flowline, a plastic lined water injection flowline and a gas lift flowline,
  • fabrication and installation of rigid spools,
  • manufacturing and installation of flexible jumpers and umbilicals,
  • tie-in by divers, trenching, rockdumping, and ready for operation activities.
• **Reef Subsea:** Trenching services
• **KWsubsea:** Predictive UHB analysis for pipe-in-pipe (21km), water injection (32km), gas line (25km)

History

• 2004 - Licence for the block awarded
• 2009 - Bøyla oil field discovered
• 2012 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate received the plan for development and operation
• 2012 - Technip was awarded an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract
• 2014 - Marathon Oil Announces Sale of Norway Business to Det Norske
• 2015 - First oil produced
• 2016 - BP and Det Norske merged their Norwegian assets

Geology

• Bøyla produces oil from sandstone of late Paleocene to early Eocene age in the Hermod Formation. The reservoir has good quality and lies in a channelised submarine fan system at depth of 2,100 metres.

Links

1. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Bøyla
2. Marathon Oil, Norway
3. [[[KWsubsea Upheaval Buckling And Out Of Straightness Analysis]]]
4. Lundin Petroleum Discovers Oil In PL340 Offshore Norway
5. NPD processes development plan for Bøyla – 24/9-9 S
6. Technip awarded a major contract for the Bøyla field development in Norway
7. Reef Subsea secures contract award on Bøyla Development Project for Q1000 jet trencher
8. Marathon Oil Announces $2.7 Billion Sale of Norway Business
9. Start-up of production from the Bøyla field
10. Det norske and BP join forces to grow Norway’s leading independent oil and gas producer