Equinor further postpones startup of offshore Mariner oil field GlobeBusiness
The operator of the Mariner heavy oil field, one of Britain’s largest offshore developments in years, postponed its startup to summer 2019 on Wednesday for safety checks on the platform’s electrical couplings.
The latest, pushing the expected launch back from the first to the second half of this year, follows a decision taken in November by Norwegian operator Equinor to inspect all of Mariner’s 40,000 couplings.Initial tests showed the couplings’ failure rate was too high, Equinor’s vice president for major projects, Morten Ruth, told Reuters on Wednesday.
“We see the startup getting closer. We see that we will be able to complete all preparations before July, but there are uncertainties,” he said, adding that he now expected the startup between July and the beginning of September.The North Sea field, discovered east of the Shetland Islands in 1981, was approved for development in 2012.
Equinor has a 65.11 per cent stake in the project. Its partners are JX Nippon with 20 per cent, Siccar Point with 8.89 per cent and Dyas with 6 per cent.The platform’s topside was built at a Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering yard in South Korea.
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