STATFJORD FIELD

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Oil workers arrive at Statfjord B. The 700 people working on the platform are shuttled backwards and forwards from Bergen by Norwegian helicopter operators.
Their helicopters are able to land in all but the most severe weather
Offshore fields do not come bigger or more expensive than Statfjord
Venture highlights economic risks
THE STATFJORD FIELD has
been dubbed the biggest " mar-
ginal " discovery in the North
Sea. For much of the develop-
ment period analysts questioned
.whether its backers. would reap
a just financial reward for their
.enormous investment
Development work was started
In 1974, just after the four-fold
Increase in oil prices that fol-
lowed the first major energy
crisis. -Statfjord probably would
have been. left untapped but for
that sudden escalation in oil
, prices. - ?
' But as the 1970s progressed,
and the real value of oil began
to decline again, the project
began to look more and more
suspect as a profitable money-
spinner.
Just as Mobil and its partners
were preparing to start produc-
tion from the first platform?
in December 1979 ? another
energy crisis emerged to give
oil prices a further boost.
Between 1978 and the end of
1980 the average price of oil
produced by the Organisation
of Petroleum Exporting Coun-
tries shot up from $12.94 to
about $32 a barrel. Statfjord's
economics were underpinned
once more.
Now there are signs that oil
prices are fading again. No one
knows how low they will fall
over the next few years. If
some of the pessimistic fore-
casts emanating from the U.S.
come true, and world oil prices
do drop to about $12-$15 a
barrel, then Statfjord would
certainly become an economic-
ally marginal prospect.
It is estimated that it _ cpsts
6--a-barrel jusr-to?iirodiice the
field's oil without making any
allowance for servicing and
'repaying debt, paying taxes, and
,taking a profit.
Statfjord highlights the risks
associated with a major project,
with its long development lead
Britoil 17
(conoco)
NORWEGIAN SECTOR %
Statoil ' 42.0
Mobil Exploration
Norway (operator) ... 12.6
Esso Exploration and
Production Norway ... 8.4
THE STATFJORD GROUP
Norske Shell 8.4 Texas Eastern Norwegian
Conoco Norway 8.4 UK SECTOR
Saga Petroleum 1.6 Britoil
Amerada Corporation of Conoco North Sea
Norway 0.9 Gulf 011
Amoco Norway Oil 0.9 Gulf (UK) Offshore lays.
? Aga ?rease oil output towards the
'January, Mobil will be able to!inc
. designed level. of 180,000 b/d.
The $2.4bn C platform, now
! under construction in Stevan-
' ger, Norway, is due to be towed
to its position in the north of
the field in 1984. Production
should begin the following year.;
Output from the C platform
0.9 is due to reach a plateau of
210,000 b/d in 1987. By then
5,3 the field as a whole should be
5,3 producing oil at a rate of
2.7 ? 550,000 b/d, more than three
2.7 times Norway's daily consump-
tion of oil products. (Peak
output is expected to be be-
fjord Field. But in October tween 550,000 b/d and 600,000
1979, following further explora- b/d.) Natural gas should also
tion and appraisal drilling, the be flowing to the Continent via
UK partnership's share was i the Statpipe system. ?
increased to 15.9 per cent. The No one can be sure how long
allocation of reserves may well j Statfjord will be kept on I
be amended again, given fresh stream. Companies involved In
data from producing wells, i the project hope that eventually!
The $1.4bn A platform, placed; they might be able to extract!
roughly in the centre of the more than 51 per cent of the oil
field, began producing oil 'at that is there. Present estimates
the end of 1979 and by early indicate that Statfjord produc-
this summer was yielding an ? tion will end in about 2015..
average 250,000 barrels a day. ' The platforms have been de-
The A structure has the largest signed so that they can be
production capacity of the three Pk tioa ted away from the field once
Statfjord platforms, capable of the work has been completed.
In many ways the removal of
these huge, concrete gravity
structures will be easier than
the dismantling of more con-
ventional steel platforms. But
can we -be sure of this? Will
the platforms really be re-
moved? These are questions
time, in a rapidly changing
economic environment.
And offshore fields do not
come much bigger, or more
expensive, than Statfjord. Te
total development cost is esti-
mated to be about $7bn
although fluctuating exchange
rates make it difficult to be
precise. This sum includes the
cost of three production plat-
forms, about 90 production and
injection wells, and the Stat-
fjord group's 7 per cent share
of the Statpipe gas transmission
system.
For this prodigious invest-
ment the Statfjord partners
expect to recover at least 3.3bn
barrels of oil and 3,4Q0bn Cu ft
of natural gas. This production
will represent an oil recovery
efficiency of about 51 per cent,
compared with a worldwide
average of about 30 per cent.
Statfjord's oil is contained in
two different reservoir rocks,
the Middle Jurassic Brent sand-
stoner containing_ nearly-.4;950m
barrels of oil, and the Lower
Jurassic Statfjord sandstone,
containing 1,420m barrels. The
Mobil-led consortium can extract
such a big proportion of this oil
because of the high quality of
the reservoir rocks. The oil
Itself is also attractive, being
light with little sulphur and no
wax.
The field's potential became
apparent on June 5 1974 when
the discovery well, sunk in
Norwegian block 33/9, tested
high-quality oil of 38.5 degrees
API at various rates, some over
10,000 barrels a day. The Stet-
fjord A platform marks the spot
where that discovery well was
drilled.
Plugged
Across the median line in the
UK sector, an exploration well
had been drilled in block 211/24 producing 300,000 b/d. Indeed,
a year earlier. But this was on August 17 this year the plat-
en unsuccessful venture and the form produced a record 309,650
well was plugged and aban- .
doned. It transpired that the The $1.9bn B platform,
well had 'just missed the although larger than A, has only
southern portion of the field 180,000 b/d capacity due to
which was successfully pene- Norwegian Government safety
trated early in 1975. By this regulations. This structure was which are being asked More fre-
time the Norwegian interests in towed to its southerly imitien 'I_VS_Stl.Y1 .._nsiss-that-the--NorthsSe
blocks 33/9 and ,...33Z12--bad---4n -the-field-on--Au-gust ifligi andl oil industry has reached
-already initiated a development began production early in ! maturity.
plan. November ? about a month " The answer was provided by
Initially it was reckoned that ahead of the schedule set WI a blunt Norwegian oilman,
the partners in the UK block autumn 1978, _ . supervising work on Statfjord
_ Owing -t6 gas-flaring restric-- B: "It seems to me that it has
211/24 ? Conoco, Gulf and lions, the platform has been never been a problem for one
British National Oil Corporation- yielding only 55,000 b/d but ;generation to destroy what an-
(now Britoil) ? held a 11.11 once the gas reinjection equip-1 other generation has built
per cent interest in the Stat- ment is working, probably by before.'
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. Jim Gafken supervised the start up of operations
on Statfjord B. He talks about his work
i Top troubleshooter at
_
. home .in North Sea
JIM GAMEN has a repute- ? ?
troubleshooters In the oil
Gen for being one of the top
.,-,4'...'?` ' ' \ P--,:',' men from the U.S. "The
medical department must
Beryl Field in the UR sector
operations on Statfjord B. He
A piatfornt and on Mobil's
did the same on the Statfjord
to supervise the start-up
huskies& It has been hb lot
? '';-??:".
, the local development team,
assistance. It was done with
Statfjord B needed no such
were over 50."
have had a fit Most of them
The commissioning of
of the North Sea.
most of them Non The
vegi an.
? Hi a a job that has taken '? - -operation went so smoothly
him to the four corners of the that oil was flowing within 12
minutes of the Government's
industry's biggest and most
world and to many of the oil formal production approval.
complicated project&
? Careful planning is all
"But in aft my 28 years in
You are offshore it is a
important, he said. "When
this industry I have never
been on anything like this." 4 . ? v.:441.,...:& logistics game. You have a
be explained, surveying the ,..?A
lot of advance planning. You
tirg:itf,_ jord B. The standards
and when you need it.
ons and living quarters
need to iClIOW what you need
adopted for "the platfbnn
"You have to do forward
Illustrated the way in which
Planning to handle 99 per
progressing. And yet he
the offshore Industry was
cent of the Problems But
- said, he had no doubt that in
20 years' time Statfjord B with North Sea oil Indus- planning and preparing for
Jim Gafken: impressed there is a danger of over.
one for hyperbole, Mr
would look old-fashioned. try growth over past "We had our problems and
Indus-things which may not happen.
Gafken is nevertheless decade teething troubles. When you
fanpressedthe way the have items of machinery that
withNorth Sea oil industry has home is still in the U.S. round, you always have the
[Crown over the past decade. although, as he says: "I live potential for failure. But on
go up and down or round and
it is gelling quote crowded in airplanes, bouncing back the whole the start-up has
can see rigs and platforms on ations."
out here. On a clear day you ' and forth between oper- gone smoothly. One of our ?
the Brent, Dunlin, Murchison, Oilmen love to talk of the biggest technical problems .
Thistle, Nini an, Cormorant, has been re-injecting gas into
Magnus and Heather fields, sition or knowledge and
"learning curve," the acqui- the reservoir."
"The pioneering spirit has experience. And Statfjord Now Mr Gafken is prepar.
gone. On the other hand, a lag to work on the commis-
tremendous support industry provides an example of such sioning of the Statfjord C
has been established on both progress. . platform. In the interim he . ?
sides of the median line. Team of
fly in and out of a varietY
From the support standpoint, of countries, looking at pro-
Gulf of Mexico."
ft is as good here as in the Mr Gafken recalls that Mobil's Senior Consultant
jeets needing the attention of
when Statfjord A WRS com-
Aged 48, Mr Gafken was missioned Mobil, as operator, Services. "As you can see,
Engineer for Production
barn in West Virginia. His flew a team of ten of its top we are big on titles."
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