Bureau Veritas will provide second- and third-party inspection services for the Fenja development.

Neptune Energy has awarded Bureau Veritas a contract to provide second- and third-party inspection services for the new Fenja oil and gas field development offshore Norway, Bureau Veritas reported Thursday.

“(W)e have remained committed to the North and Norwegian sea regions, firmly believing there remains an active industry in the area and this contract award, which will see our teams support Neptune Energy bring a new field into production, is a testament to this,” Paul Shrieve, vice president for offshore and services with Bureau Veritas’ Marine & Offshore unit, said in a written statement emailed to Rigzone.

Located in the Norwegian Sea in oil rig flanges gulf coast production license (PL) 586, . The BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast also noted that Norway’s government in April 2018 approved the Fenja development and operation plan, which includes:

• Two subsea templates tying back to Equinor ASA’s Njord A platform,
• Six to eight wells
• Production, water injection and gas injection flowlines
• The world’s longest electrically trace heated pipe-in-pipe

Neptune is the operator of Fenja, which boasts a 100 million barrels of oil equivalent resource estimate, and holds a 30-percent interest in the field. Other owners include Point Resources (45 percent), Suncor Energy, Inc. (17.5 percent) and Faroe Petroleum (7.5 percent).

Neptune anticipates first oil from the approximately $1.2 billion Fenja development in 2021.

Bureau Veritas stated that its four-year frame agreement with Neptune will run until December 2022. The BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast added that, as development progresses, it may pick up additional third-party inspection work elsewhere in Europe as well as in other global locations.