Norwegian oil major Equinor issued a video depicting the installation of four huge modules at the Martin Linge field, in the North Sea, last week. The largest module lifted into place by Thialf was a whopping 10,500 tonnes. The hook up now begins, connecting steel, pipes and cables.
The Martin Linge field in the North Sea is an oil and gas discovery that was made in 1975. The field is located 42 km west of Oseberg, at a water depth of 115 metres. Equinor (then Statoil) became the operator of the Martin Linge field and Garantiana discovery in a transaction completed on 19 March 2018.
New wells drilled in the following years confirmed that this was a complex, high-pressure area, consisting of an oil reservoir at 2,000 metres depth and a sizeable gas reservoir at 4000 metres depth.
At peak some 1,500 to 2,000 individuals in rotation will be occupied in the hook up and completion phase.
The production is estimated to begin in 2019.
