TotalEnergies and its partners at the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) have confirmed that the Thira II redevelopment project will resume operations as planned in March 2024.
DUC, a partnership between TotalEnergies (operator, 43.2%), BlueNord (36.8%) and Nordsøfonden (20%), is making progress in the final stages of the Thira redevelopment project, considered Denmark’s largest natural gas field. Masu.
DUC says a significant scope of work towards completion of the Tyra II facility has been completed.
Leak testing, essential for safety and integrity prior to gas injection, and functional testing of key process machinery required to handle the gas are progressing well.
Tyra East Riser platform Echo has been declared hot with all pipelines connected. De-sequestration of these pipelines has also begun, an important step towards first gas.
At Tyra West, the first well has been successfully uncorked and dewatered and two wireline teams are carrying out parallel well uncorking operations on the Tyra West B and C platforms.
Extensive work has been carried out on leak testing the facility and it is expected that all leak testing will be completed prior to the first gas export, which could allow for efficient start-up and shortened start-up times. There is a gender.
A key focus before the first gas export remains to ensure that safety and emergency systems are fully operational.
Equinor stated in its Jan. 22 REMIT notice that the current restart date of March 31, 2024 remains in place, although a level of operational uncertainty remains due to the project’s progress to date. Confirmed that it is valid.
According to Equinor, depending on the progress of the project, reopening could occur as early as early March.
Additionally, in the same REMIT notice, the operator stated that test results suggest it is expected to take four months from restart to reach maximum technical capacity.
Once fully operational, Tyra will supply 2.8 billion cubic meters of gas per year, making Denmark once again a net exporter and self-sufficient in natural gas, Total Energy said earlier.
The redevelopment of the Tyra field included three main elements: decommissioning and recycling of the old Tyra platform. Six of the 13-metre platforms will reuse and extend the current platform legs and have new tops. A completely new process module and a new adaptation platform.
In early January, the project’s partners reached a final investment decision (FID) under which a new well will be drilled in the Harald East area near the Norwegian border and gas will be exported through the Thira East facility.
If the drilling campaign is successful, the well could begin production by the end of 2024.