BP and Subsea 7 were presented with the Collaboration Award during SPE Offshore Achievement Awards at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on March 22, 2018. The prize recognises the efforts of a multi-company team working together to achieve outstanding results on an offshore oil and gas project.
The two companies worked closely together to bring the BP-operated Arundel field into production – 17 years after it was first discovered. The field, located in the Central North Sea 15 kilometres north of the Andrew platform, was discovered in 2000 but proved challenging to develop.
BP and Subsea 7 used advanced techniques to insulate a new pipeline, upcycled existing equipment and adopted a flexible approach to subsea vessel scheduling.
First oil from Arundel was achieved in September 2017. The field, which is tied back to the BP-operated Andrew platform, is expected to contain around 5 million barrels of recoverable oil.
