Our Arctic Neighbors: Norwegian companies vie for Goliat contracts

Eni Norge has chosen Norwegian company Sevan Marine’s 1000 Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel as the preferred concept for the platform to be installed on the Goliat oil and gas field in the Barents Sea. Another Norwegian company, Aker Solutions, lost out with its alternative proposal, but still hopes to win another Goliat contract.

The Sevan 1000 FPSO is based on Sevan’s proprietary technology and will have an oil production capacity of 100,000 barrels per day, a gas production capacity of 3.9 million standard cubic meters (137.7 million standard cubic feet) per day, and an oil storage capacity of 1 million barrels, according to a release Feb. 2. Electricity from shore will provide reduced emission of carbon dioxide and the oil containment system will reduce the risk for oil pollution. The oil containment system will be protected by ballast tanks in the sides and bottom area. There will be no contact between the oil and the ballast water, preventing the emission of polluted ballast water, according to Sevan.

“We are satisfied that Eni today commented that they have not awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the project, which the tender originally implied,” Jannik Lindbaek Jr., Aker Solutions’ vice president for corporate communications, said Feb. 2, “The choice of operator remains open, which means that we can still win the job to build the FPSO.”

—Sarah Hurst