Statoil resumes production at North Sea’s Troll C platform

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NORWEGIAN oil group Statoil has resumed part of production from an important North Sea platform which was suspended last week, cutting national daily oil output by 8 percent, the company said on Monday.

Production was halted on the Troll C platform on November 15 after a routine inspection found corrosion in the tank of a gas treatment system.

Pumping operations were resumed during the night between Saturday and Sunday, Statoil said in a statement.

A temporary fix, which involves re-injecting untreated gas into the reservoir, means production will reach “around 70 percent” of the platform’s maximum capacity, it added.

“The duration of the repair work has not yet been clarified,” the company said.

The facility would normally produce about 120,000 barrels of oil and 10.5 million cubic metres (371 million cubic feet) of natural gas per day. The volumes include oil and gas from the Fram field, which is connected to Troll C
Norway produced 1,473 million barrels of oil per day in October. According to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the country is the world’s seventh largest exporter of oil and the second largest exporter of gas.

Troll C is one of three production facilities in the Troll field, the Scandinavian country’s largest gas reserve.

Statoil holds a 30.58 percent stake in the project, together with publicly owned Petoro (56 percent), Anglo-Dutch Shell (8.1 percent), France’s Total (3.7 percent) and USbased ConocoPhillips (1.6 percent), according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

The adjacent Fram field is covered by a separate production license, held by Statoil (45 percent), US oil major ExxonMobil (25 percent), and France’s GDF Suez and Idemitsu of Japan (15 percent each).

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