Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup license have awarded a jacket contract for the processing platform for Johan Sverdrup phase 2 to Kværner, the company said on Oct. 31. The contract value is around NOK 900 million (US$106 million).

“With this contract, Kværner and the Norwegian supplier industry have once again proved it is competitive in an international market. In the first phase of the Johan Sverdrup development more than 70 percent of the contracts were awarded to suppliers in Norway. With this contract to Kværner, we expect an even higher share of Norwegian suppliers in the second phase of the development,” Trond Bokn, senior vice president for the Johan Sverdrup development, said.

This is a contract covering engineering, procurement and construction of the steel substructure for the second processing platform for the Johan Sverdrup field. The 12,300-tonne substructure will be constructed at Kværner’s yard in Verdal and installed at the Johan Sverdrup field during the spring of 2021.

“The Johan Sverdrup phase 2 contracts awarded earlier this year will ensure activity at many yards along the Norwegian coast in the years to come—primarily in Haugesund and Egersund and at Stord. With this jacket contract we can now also add Verdal to this list,” he said.

Kværner’s offices at Fornebu will be responsible for engineering and design services. The contract will create around 300 direct jobs in the construction period.

Both Johan Sverdrup phases combined are, according to the consultancy Agenda Kaupang, estimated to involve more than 150,000 man-years in the period 2015 to 2025.

Kværner has so far delivered three of the jackets for the first phase of the Johan Sverdrup project. This contract means that Kværner will have delivered four of five jackets to the giant field when the second development phase is completed in fourth-quarter 2022.

The first phase of the Johan Sverdrup project is expected to start production in November next year and includes four installations with steel substructures: a utility and living quarters platform, a drilling platform, a riser platform and a processing platform.

The second phase of the Johan Sverdrup project will also have a jacket-based processing platform, and modifications are made to the field center to expand production capacity from 440,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) of oil to 660,000 bbl/d of oil.

The contract is subject to approval of the plan for development and operation of Johan Sverdrup phase 2 that was submitted to Norwegian authorities on August 27, 2018.

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