Petrojarl Knarr ©Teekay Norwegian energy company Equinor has taken a step forward with its Rosebank project in the UK North Sea by submitting key environmental documents. An Environmental Impact Assessment was submitted to the UK’s Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (OPRED) on Thursday. The document outlines the Rosebank project and how it will mitigate any environmental impacts on the environment. However, by Friday morning, the link to the report on OPRED’s website had been removed. OE has asked OPRED why this has happened. The EIA sets out that Equinor plans to make a final investment decision on the first phase project in February 2023, according to reports, with first production in 2026, ramping up to about 70,000 barrels of oil per day and 1.7 million cu m of gas per day. A second phase would then be shaped by data from the first phase. Equinor’s plan is to drill four production wells and three water injection wells in the first phase of the field’s development, and then up to three further production wells and two water injectors in a second phase. The wells will be connected to a redeployed floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Equinor […]
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