Statoil is pressing ahead with drilling plans in the Norwegian Sea after getting permission to use the Songa Encourage semi-submersible.
The operator is to use the mobile drilling facility to perform well activities on the Alve, Norne, and Norne satellite fields.
The Norne field is located west of the town Mo i Rana in Nordland county.
The field has been developed using a floating production and storage unit, tied to well templates on the seabed.
The oil is transported from the Norne facility by tanker, while the gas is piped to Kårstø in Rogaland county and on to Germany.
Production at Norne began in 1997.
The Alve field, which is 16 kilometres southwest of Norne, and other satellite fields are tied back to the Norne facility.
Statoil has received consent to use the Songa Encourage for a variety of well activities, including production or injection, well overhaul and other intervention work, as well as plugging.
Songa Encourage is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the Cat D type, owned and operated by Songa Offshore.
It was built by the Daewoo yard in South Korea in 2016, is registered in Norway.
Statoil was given permission to use the Songa Encourage for the drilling and completion of wells at Asgard and Heidrun at the start of last summer.
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