RE: delays21 Feb 2019 11:57
Delays related to Hurricane Energy’s Lancaster development have forced Spirit Energy’s drilling plans west of Shetland to be pushed back.
Last year Spirit bought 50% of Hurricane’s Lincoln and Warwick Licences, which contain the Greater Warwick Area thought to hold up to two billion barrels of oil.
Spirit agreed to cover the cost of a £139million drilling campaign to further prove the region’s potential, which was due to begin in the first quarter of the year.
However, Spirit has confirmed this has now been pushed back to Q2 due to delays related to Hurricane’s Lancaster project.
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Spirit’s Greater Warwick campaign with the Transocean Leader semi-submersible is due to take place once Hurricane’s FPSO for the Lancaster field is hooked up.
There has been a series of setbacks in production starting at the west of Shetland field, with Hurricane Energy struggling to hook up the Aoka Mizu production vessel to a buoy installed at the site.
Lancaster — 100%-owned by Hurricane — is thought to hold 523 million stock tank barrels of oil.
Those delays have resulted in Spirit’s campaign being knocked back.
First oil from Lancaster is expected in the first half of the year.