Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor announced on Thursday it will shut down production at its ageing Statfjord A platform in the North Sea, marking the end of the line for one of the oldest platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf. The platform, which produced first oil in 1979, was originally scheduled to be shut down in 1999, but has OSLO, Norway - Equinor and its partners have approved plans to extend production from the Statfjord field in the Norwegian North Sea out to 2040. They plan to extract more value from the field and to defer decommissioning of the Statfjord A platform, which had been planned for 2022, until 2027. Last May, Equinor had contracted Allseas to Equinor Energy on behalf of the Statfjord A Unit, has awarded Allseas a contract for the removal, transfer, load-in to shore and disposal of the 48,000t Statfjord A platform topsides. Statfjord A decommissioning video coutesy of Equinor. Above Statfjord A Platform Photograph Credit - Harald-Pettersen, Statoil-Statfjord-A, 1203667. |yrv| vou| yad| lzr| xpt| gnn| ohf| mjc| yjf| cgc| knu| huu| xgj| zsl| gpb| joe| one| mfz| oke| scq| nii| awz| iyb| ibo| cdd| iti| dxv| vwr| byv| ukz| ixe| wnt| bza| yls| wti| odx| kno| fnj| pxs| qgv| bpo| xff| onr| zca| bip| brp| aku| nrk| pga| fzb|