The consent covers the drilling of top-hole sections for production wells on the Martin Linge field, where Statoil is the operator.
Martin Linge
Martin Linge is a field near the border to the UK sector in the northern part of the North Sea, 42 kilometres west of the Oseberg field. The water depth is 115 metres. Martin Linge was discovered in 1978 and the plan for development and operations (PDO) was approved in 2012. The development concept is a fully integrated fixed production platform and a floating, storage and offloading unit (FSO) for oil storage. Production started in 2021.
Source: norskpetroleum.no
The drilling operations are estimated to take 21 days (42 days including options). The planned start-up is early May 2018.
Maersk Intrepid is a jack-up drilling facility, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The facility is owned by Maersk AS and operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS.
The facility was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in 2014.