Statoil, partners commence production on Stjerne field
Statoil and its partners have started up production on the Stjerne field, 13 kilometres southwest of the Oseberg South platform in the North Sea. Stjerne is the fifth of Statoil's fast-track projects in production, Statoil news release said.
The fast-track projects consist of tying back adjacent new discoveries to existing field infrastructures. Implementation time for the Stjerne project was 39 months once it became part of Statoil's fast-track portfolio.
Stjerne was discovered in 2009. The field has a four-slot seabed template. Two wells will produce oil and gas, while the other two will inject water into the reservoir for pressure support. So far one of the wells has been drilled.
The recoverable reserves, which shows an increase based on the results from the first well, is now estimated to 49.2 mboe. Oil constitutes 20.7 mboe and gas 24.1 mboe.
In addition, the project will lead to increased recovery of 4.4 mboe from the Oseberg Omega North reservoir. The estimate for total production volume, according to the PDO, is 7 800 boepd.
