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Wood / Equinor
Wood has entered into a three-year agreement to deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, and offshore services on the Mariner A platform and Mariner B floating storage unit. The agreement, valued at around $75 million, will run for three years from January 2021 through to Q4 2023, with options to extend.
Equinor are a broad energy company with more than 21,000 colleagues committed to providing affordable energy for societies worldwide and taking a leading role in the energy transition. They are on route to net zero emissions through optimising their oil and gas portfolio, accelerating growth in renewables and pioneering developments in carbon capture and hydrogen.
Equinor is present in around 30 countries around the world, including several of the world’s most important oil and gas provinces. They operate in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Norway. Mariner oil field is located approximately 150km east of the Shetland Islands, primarily in Block 9/11a in the northern North Sea, UK. It is the largest field developed on the UK Continental shelf in recent years. The annual oil production rate from the field is approximately 55,000 barrels per day (b/d), which will increase to 70,000b/d during peak production phase. Mariner is Equinor’s first operated asset in the UK, with its next target being Rosebank to the west of Shetland, though a final investment decision on that project is not expected until 2022. The development has been praised for its use of automated drilling and digital twin technologies to improve costs. When it came to the need for accurate and reliable flow metering on the 6” water injection lines, Wood approached ABLE, who specified the industry proven McCrometer V-Cone Differential Pressure Meters. To provide resistance to the potentially erosive nature of the process, the meters are constructed in 22% cr duplex stainless steel and are installed between 6” 1500# RTJ Flanges. 3.2 Material Certification is a pre-requisite. ABLE are also supplying the 5-valve manifolds and transmitter.