Norway's Fram Sees Growth after Platform Upgrades
Equinor and its partners have managed to raise gas production considerably at the Fram field in the North Sea, the Norwegian producer said on February 11, after recently launching a new gas module at the Troll C platform.
Equinor and Fram’s other partners – Var Energi, Neptune Energy and Idemitsu Petroleum – approved the krone 1bn ($110mn) project in 2017, in agreement with Troll C’s partners, boosting the platform’s gas processing capacity by 3.5mn m3/day (around 1.28bn m3/yr).
Fram was discovered in 1990 and brought on stream in 2003. It produced around 660mn m³/yr of gas in 2019, down from 709mn m³ in 2018 and 728mn m³ in 2017, according to Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) data.
“The gas module accelerates gas production and capacity in the Fram licence for existing and new wells,” Equinor’s senior vice president for operations west, Gunnar Nakken, said in a statement. “At the same time the gas module allows new future discoveries to be tied in.”
Neptune said the start-up of the module was an "important milestone and a further demonstration of our commitment to grow and strengthen our core areas close to existing infrastructure and enhance our footprint in a key geographic area."