Statoil公司Rutil油田开发获批

STAVANGER, Norway — The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted the licensees in Gullfaks (PL050) consent to start-up the facilities on the Rutil deposit and to start producing.

Rutil is a gas-filled structure on the Statoil-operated Gullfaks South, in the Tampen area of the North Sea.

Rutil will be developed with a standard subsea template with four well slots with two gas production wells. The subsea template is tied into the existing infrastructure on the Gullfaks A facility for processing and export.

In the Plan for Development and Operation of Rutil, submitted in December 2014, the operator, Statoil, estimated that the in-place volumes are 17.9 billion Sm3 of gas and 2 million Sm3 of condensate. Expected recoverable reserves are 11.9 million standard oil equivalents.

Production is scheduled to start in August or September—several months earlier than originally planned.