Statoil not piercing at Gullfaks oil, gas area, evaluating safety and security
Statoil, the largest operator on the Norwegian continental rack, stated on Monday that it was still not drilling at its Gullfaks area in the North Sea, as the firm continued to examine safety and security procedures after a recent major event there.
Statoil interactions head Jannik Lindbaek informed Platts that piercing operations stayed closed as well as he might not say when they would certainly restart.
"We are still working on the scenario as well as we will certainly get back with even more information as soon as we have anything to claim," Lindbaek included.
On November 11 Statoil revealed that it was momentarily put on hold boring procedures at the Gullfaks area to review regimens adhering to an unpredictable well incident in May.
Statoil claimed, nonetheless, that production was continuing as typical from the Gullfaks field and linked satellite areas.
Lindbaek claimed Statoil CEO Helge Lund was having a meeting with his elderly administration on Monday - which top of the schedule was the concern of immediate adjustments to the method the company does points, in order to satisfy demands from Norway's energy authorities.
On Friday Norwegian watchdog, the Petroleum Safety and security Authority, provided Statoil a painful rebuke over the loss of control at the Gullfaks C system on May 19 that brought about its shutdown for 2 months while Statoil battled to make emergency situation repair work.
The PSA report mentioned that the case had actually created an extremely harmful circumstance and that only good luck had actually stopped a significant blowout.
Statoil itself has actually constantly denied it lost control, claiming its blow out preventer stayed functional which there had actually been only a really tiny threat of a blowout or leak.
On Sunday Lund stated in a nationwide tv interview that safety and security on the Norwegian continental rack had actually been boosting over the previous years, yet he acknowledged that his team had fallen down sharply over Gullfaks C.
" biocides for water treatment are better however the Gullfaks circumstance shows that we can do better. We have to develop a knowing society, and that indicates that we identify when we are not good enough and we have actually not been in this situation," he claimed.
Statoil closed down production completely at the Gullfaks C system, as well as the satellite Tordis system, in the Norwegian component of the North Sea, as a result of pressure becoming unsteady at one of its wells. The two typically generate regarding 60,000-70,000 barrels of oil matching a day.