Subsea contract for Fram Ost in North Sea

An Aker Kvaerner Oil and Gas product story

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Mar 8, 2005

The operator Norsk Hydro has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for subsea systems to the Fram Ost project in the North Sea

The operator Norsk Hydro has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for subsea systems to the Fram Ost project in the North Sea.

This is a tie-back project to the Troll C platform and the contract value is NOK 360 million.

The Aker Kvaerner subsea company, Kvaerner Oilfield Products (KOP), will deliver engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of two four-slot templates for a total of seven wells including wellhead systems and Xmas trees as well as control systems.

Design, fabrication and testing will be carried out by the KOP project team in Lysaker, Tranby and Egersund in Norway and Aberdeen in UK, through 2005 and 2006.

Fram Ost is located approximately 20 kilometres north of the Troll field at a sea depth of 360 meters.

It will be a subsea installation with five oil producers and two wells for water injection tied up to the Troll C platform.

Production start up is planned for October 2006.