Statoil Receives Constent to Use West Elara on Valemon Field

Statoil has received consent to use West Elara on the Valemon field.

The consent relates to hook-up of West Elara to the jacket, drilling and installation of 30” conductors in the planned first 12 wells and drilling of well B-20 for injection of drill cuttings and mud in the Utsira formation.

The Valemon field is located in blocks 34/10 and 34/11, between Kvitebjørn and Gullfaks Sør, in the northern part of the North Sea.

West Elara is a jack-up drilling facility delivered by the Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd in Singapore in 2011. It is registered in Norway and Det Norske Veritas is its classification society.

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Offshore Nieuws  Staff, July 26, 2012; Image: