Dong cut first steel for the Danish offshore North Sea platform. The 15,000-tonne production platform will be built in a shipyard on the island of Geoje, South Korea, and shipped to the Hejre field in the Danish North Sea in 2015. The Hejre platform is expected to be in full production by 2016, and is slated to significantly increase DONG Energy’s oil and gas production from the North Sea.
Mr Søren Gath Hansen, executive vice president responsible for DONG Energy’s oil and gas business, said, “Today’s celebration to mark the beginning of the construction of the Hejre platform is the culmination of several years of exploration and thorough analyses. In a few years from now, this work will lead to a significant, new Danish oil and gas field, which will boost Denmark’s production.”
Apart from being a welcome contribution to extending Denmark’s status as a self-supplying oil nation, the Hejre field is an important step in terms of DONG Energy’s aim to achieve a strategic objective of doubling the company’s oil and gas production from 2012 to 2020.
