Repsol – consent to use subsea installations beyond its original planned lifetime

What does producing life extension involve?

New technology and operating methods as well as measures to improve oil and gas recovery mean that licensees often want to keep existing facilities working past their retirement date.

In many cases, continuing to use facilities beyond their design life makes socio-economic sense. But permitting such extensions at the expense of safety is not acceptable.

Rev

Rev is a field close to the UK border in the southern part of the Norwegian sector in the North Sea, four kilometres south of the Varg field. The water depth is 90-110 metres. Rev was discovered in 2001, and the plan for development and operation (PDO) was approved in 2007. The field is developed with a subsea template including three production wells connected to the Armada field on the UK continental shelf. The production started in 2009.