Stockholm, 2012-05-03 15:47 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Lundin Petroleum AB ("Lundin Petroleum") is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS as operator for PL338 containing the Edvard Grieg field (previously named Luno) has, with its partners Wintershall Norge AS (Wintershall) and RWE Dea Norge AS (RWE Dea), awarded a letter of intent to Kvaerner Stord AS for topside installations for the Edvard Grieg development.
Edvard Grieg is an oil and gas field located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea which incorporates both the Luno and Tellus discoveries. First production from the Edvard Grieg field in PL338 is expected in late 2015 with a forecast gross peak production of approximately 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) (90,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and 1.5 million Sm3 of gas per day). The capital cost of the Edvard Grieg development including platform, pipelines and production wells is estimated at USD 4 billion. The Edvard Grieg platform design capacity will accommodate in excess of 160,000 boepd (130,000 bopd and 4 million Sm3 gas per day) when Draupne production is combined with that from the Edvard Grieg field.
The Letter of Intent is an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the topside facilities for the Edvard Grieg platform. The topside is built up of four main elements: deck frame, utility module, process module and living quarters. Engineering will be performed by Aker Solutions AS, deck frame and utility module will be constructed by Kvaerner Stord AS, the process module by Aker Egersund AS and the living quarters by Apply Leirvik AS. The modules will be delivered mechanically complete and commissioned in April 2015 for installation on the already installed jacket in May 2015.
Ashley Heppenstall, President and CEO of Lundin Petroleum comments;" The topside contract for the Edvard Grieg project is the largest component of the field development. As such we are extremely pleased to award this contract to Kvaerner with whom we are looking forward to delivering this project on schedule and budget."
Lundin Petroleum is the operator and has a 50 percent working interest in the Edvard Grieg field. Wintershall and RWE Dea hold a 30 percent and a 20 percent interest, respectively.
Lundin Petroleum is a Swedish independent oil and gas exploration and production company with a well balanced portfolio of world-class assets primarily located in Europe and South East Asia. The Company is listed at the NASDAQ OMX, Stockholm (ticker "LUPE") and at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) (Ticker "LUP"). Lundin Petroleum has proven and probable reserves of 211 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe).
For further information, please contact:
C. Ashley Heppenstall,
President and CEO
Tel: +41 22 595 10 00
or
Maria Hamilton
Head of Corporate Communications
maria.hamilton@lundin.ch
Tel: +41 22 595 10 00
Tel: +46 8 440 54 50
Mobile: +41 79 63 53 641
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