Proposals for developing the Gjøa field in the North Sea have been submitted by development operator Statoil to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in Oslo on 15 December 2006. This submission, which was unanimously agreed, includes a plan for development and operation (PDO) of the field itself and a plan for installation and operation of associated pipelines. The partners in the Gjøa licence want to produce Gjøa through subsea-completed wells tied back to a semi-submersible platform, with oil and gas production starting in 2010. While the oil will be piped to Statoil’s Mongstad terminal north of Bergen through a tie-in to the Troll Oil Pipeline II, the gas will go via Britain’s Flags system to St Fergus in Scotland. Electricity for the field installations will be largely supplied from land-based generating capacity. The PDO also calls for the Hydro-operated condensate and gas fields Vega and Vega South to be tied back to the Gjøa platform.
