Technical problems at three fields -- Draugen, Skuld and
Valhall -- were blamed for the decline, though NPD said oil production was still about 1 percent higher for the year than anticipated.
In our
Valhall field in Norway, we've moved increasing amounts of control and administration from the offshore to the onshore.
BP-operated producing assets include Clair, Schiehallion, Foinaven and Magnus in the Shetland area; Andrew, ETAP and Bruce in the UK's central North Sea; and
Valhall, Ula, and Hod in Norway.
It will deploy the rig at the
Valhall offshore facility in the Norwegian part of the North Sea.
The project's permanent installation of seismic cables covering 45 sq-km of the
Valhall field.
Netherlands (Mech-Tool Engineering, Darlington) - Mech-Tool has provided fire, blast and acoustic protection products to projects such as the BP
Valhall oil field.
The vessel is due to sail from Birkenhead early next month, to start cable-laying for BP's
Valhall North Sea project.
And a trade visit by Mech-Tool, in Darlington, helped towards securing work on the
Valhall redevelopment project for BP Norway.
Since the discovery of the
Valhall oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea in 1975 with production beginning in 1982, it has supplied approximately 65,000 barrels of oil per day.
In Norway, oil production was starting to return to normal after the storms forced the closure of a string of platforms, although BP's
Valhall installation remained shut.
(MH had previously signed major contracts with BP for such projects as the ACG Central Azeri, ACG West Azeri and ACG East Azeri systems, as well as the
Valhall project in the North Sea and the Thunder Horse in the Gulf of Mexico).
"Then you would put it together yourself." Johannson speaks from experience: he is president of
Valhall, Inc., builders of panelized housing.
Weisburger, a cancer prevention researcher at the American Health Foundation in
Valhall, N.Y., adds that Byers' report dovetails with his own findings in animals.
