Offshore staff
BERGEN, Norway – Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) says it has been selected to provide advanced automation and safety solutions to enable remote onshore operation for an unmanned offshore platform in the North Sea, reducing overall production costs and improving safety.
When drilling operations are completed,Statoil’s Valemon platform, located on the Norwegian continental shelf, will become a periodically-manned installation and Statoil’s first platform that will be operated from shore. Control operations will be located in Bergen, some 100 mi (160 km) away from the platform itself. Moving personnel off the facility will improve the overall safety of the operations while also boosting efficiency by centralizing the controls at the company’s Bergen location.
Honeywell says it will serve as the engineering, procurement, and construction automation contractor for the project. It will provide a range of control and safety technologies for the project, including new operator stations and critical alarm panels at the onshore Bergen operations center that will communicate with the systems on Valemon. This solution is expected to reduce the complexity of remote operations and reduce overall operating costs compared with standard solutions.
The Valemon platform sits in about 440 ft (135 m) of water and will produce natural gas and condensate from one of the biggest undeveloped natural gas fields in the North Sea with an estimated 192 MMboe. Once drilling is complete in 2017, the platform will have 10 production wells.
Among the technologies Honeywell will provide are its Experion Process Knowledge System, integrated protective solutions, Critical Alarm Panel with Safety Manager, integrated fire and gas and emergency shutdown solutions, and closed circuit TV software.
10/25/2016
