Aberdeen-based drilling group TWMA has landed a seven-year contract to provide offshore waste management for Total’s Martin Linge field.
The deal marks TWMA’s first move into the North Sea, and will see the Bridge of Don-based firm incorporating its drilling waste management system on the new Maersk XLE rig from next year.
The $4.2billion Martin Linge field project, operated by Total, is due to start operation in 2016 with an estimated output of 80,000 barrels a day equivalent.
TWMA, which recently landed a deal to provide Angola with its first offshore processing work, hopes approval from Norwegian authorities could lead to the system being deployed on the Norwegian continental shelf.
“The company has been working with the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association as part of a steering group to coordinate efforts by operators to outline and implement recognised protocols for handling and treating waste materials associated with drilling operations offshore on the NCS,” said the firm’s Scandinavian region manager Leif Ove Svensen.
“We see this contract very much as an opportunity to progress that relationship further by utilising our expertise to minimize the environmental impact of offshore operations in the NCS even further by treating drill cuttings and associated fluids at source.”
Work would be managed from the company’s office at Stavanger and the base at Mongstad, which employs 30 people.
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