The decision to bring Skrugard oil ashore at Veidnes is a key element of the further development of Norwegian oil and gas industry.
The Skrugard and Havis assets will have a common infrastructure. Production from Skrugard and Havis will be tied in to a semi-submersible floating installation through a subsea production system located in about 380 m of water. The production is estimated at almost 200,000 bbl/d.
The oil will be transported through a 280 km pipeline from Skrugard to Veidnes outside Honningsvåg. It will be piped directly to an oil storage facility and stored in two mountain caverns. The oil will be sent from there in a pipeline to the quay for transportation by tankers. Some 50-100 crude tankers per year are estimated to call at the terminal.
Executive Vice President for Development and Production Norway (DPN) Ãystein Michelsen said “This is part of the ambition of making Northern Norway the country’s next big petroleum region. We are pleased to have selected a good concept and hope that this may form the basis for a valuable partnership with local authorities and industry also in the future.”
In 2011-2012 Statoil and its partners discovered Skrugard and Havis, which are two independent structures within the same licence and represent the Skrugard field development.
The partners involved in the project are: Statoil operator (50 per cent), ENI (30 per cent), Petoro (20 per cent).