Statoil has awarded a contract to ABB in Sweden for fabrication and installation of two high-voltage cables supplying power from shore to the massive Johan Sverdrup field.
The contract is an EPCI contract covering engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation and testing of two high-voltage power cables and a fibre-optic communication cable to the field centre from shore.
The 200km high-voltage cables will cover the power need for the first phase of the Johan Sverdrup field development, which is scheduled for start-up late in 2019.
The contract also covers options for delivering high-voltage cables from shore to the field to meet the power requirement of a full development of the Johan Sverdrup field as well as the Edvard Grieg, Ivar Aasen and Gina Krog fields on the Utsira High.
The total contract value is NOK700million, plus options.
Fabricated at ABB’s plant in Karlskrona, the high-voltage cables will be laid from Haugsneset in Tysvær municipality north of Stavanger to the Johan Sverdrup field centre on the Utsira High. The power cables will be pulled up to the riser platform at the Johan Sverdrup field centre.
The cables will be buried into the seabed or covered by rocks, as required.
Earlier this week the Norwegian player awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to IKM Ocean Design for the Johan Sverdrup project.
Statoil said the contract is one of the three major contracts covering the land-based power supply project.
The first contract has already been awarded to ABB in Norway for delivery of high-voltage direct current transformer equipment to the riser platform at Johan Sverdrup and at Haugsneset.
The last contract covers all construction work related to the alternating current cable to be laid from Kårstø to Haugsneset and the entire onshore converter station. The contract for the onshore construction work is being evaluated and is expected to be awarded this autumn.
The Johan Sverdrup oil field will be operated by land-based power from production start in late 2019.
The first phase will also include all the preparations needed for land-based power supply for a full Johan Sverdrup development as well as other fields on the Utsira High by 2022.
The Johan Sverdrup field partners are Statoil 40.0267% (operator), Lundin Norway 22.6%, Petoro 17.36%, Det norske oljeselskap 11.5733% and Maersk Oil 8.44%.
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