Oselvar ( no, Oselvarfeltet) is a since April 2018 abandoned subsea
oil field located southwest of
Stavanger in the southern Norwegian section of the
North Sea
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[ Oselvar was discovered in 1991. The field is located at distance from the Ula field to which it was tied back.][
] The original estimated reserves at Oselvar were 38 million barrels of oil and of natural gas.[SubSeaIQ. Offshore Field Developments. Oselvar]
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The Oselvar field installations shall be decommissioned by the end of 2022.
Ownership
DNO Norge AS is since 2019 the formal operator of the field with 55% of interest in the project. Production License 274 which covers the area of the field was given in 2002 to then operator DONG.[ As per 2020 the only other partner is CapeOmega AS (45%). The total development cost was NOK 4.7 billion. ][
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Production
Oselvar was developed with three production wells. Produced oil and gas was transported to the Ula field platform for processing via the Oselvar module. Once processed, the oil was pumped via the Norpipe
Norpipe is a subsea oil and natural gas pipelines system in the North Sea. It supplies oil from the Norwegian Ekofisk and associated fields in the North Sea to the United Kingdom and natural gas to Germany.
Oil pipeline
The Norpipe oil pipelin ...
system to Teesside
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, UK.[ Although production was scheduled to start in November 2011,][ production actually started on April 14, 2012.
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See also
*Ula oil field
Ula ( no, Ulafeltet) is an offshore oil field located in the southern Norwegian section of North Sea along with Gyda, Tambar and Tambar East fields making up the UGT area, usually attributed to DONG Energy's main areas of exploration and pro ...
*Ekofisk oil field
Ekofisk is an oil field in block 2/4 of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea about southwest of Stavanger. Discovered in 1969 by Phillips Petroleum Company, it remains one of the most important oil fields in the North Sea. This was the first ...
*Norpipe
Norpipe is a subsea oil and natural gas pipelines system in the North Sea. It supplies oil from the Norwegian Ekofisk and associated fields in the North Sea to the United Kingdom and natural gas to Germany.
Oil pipeline
The Norpipe oil pipelin ...
*North Sea oil
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*Economy of Norway
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References
External links
DONG Energy official website
Wintershall Norge official website
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Oil fields in Norway
North Sea oil fields
Former Ørsted (company) oil and gas fields