On Friday, Ineos, the operator of the Hejre field, received the Danish Energy Agency's approval of a revised plan for the extraction and expansion of its activities on the field, whose expected production of oil and gas until 2045 will account for seven percent of Denmark's total production from the North Sea. This was announced by the Danish Energy Agency in a press release.
With the approval, Ineos has been granted permission to install an unmanned platform module on the existing Hejre jacket (steel leg structure), a new approximately 30 km long multiphase pipeline and a supply line to the Syd Arne platform.
In addition, a new inlet module will be installed on the eastern wellhead platform of Syd Arne and subsequent extraction. The Hejre field is planned to be produced with three production wells, which have been drilled and are awaiting final preparation for production.
The production from the Hejre field is planned to be processed by using the existing facilities at the Syd Arne facility together with the production from the Solsort and Syd Arne fields. The oil is transported to the Syd Arne storage tank on the seabed and exported from there using the Syd Arne existing buoy loading system for tankers. The gas is transported through the Syd Arne-Nybro gas pipeline to the onshore facility in Nybro, from where it is sent further into Energinet's transmission pipeline network.
The construction activities in connection with the revised development plan are planned to begin in 2025 with an expected start of production at the end of 2027.
Development of the Hejre field hit by delays
In 2011, the Danish Energy Agency approved a plan for the development and operation of the Hejre field. The development of the Hejre field has been affected by a number of delays in the development, including technical and quality challenges in connection with the construction of the Hejre platform, which led to the work being interrupted in 2016. The Hejre field is therefore only partially developed and has not been put into production.
"Since 2016, the licensees have reassessed the expected reserves and prepared an alternative technical and commercial solution for the complete development of the Hejre field, which is adapted to a reduction in the reserves and a shorter production period compared to the original estimates from 2011," the agency says.
The Hejre field is located approx. 300 km from the Danish west coast. The Hejre field is primarily an oil field. The oil is located more than 5,000 meters below the seabed, and the Hejre field is thus the deepest oil field in Denmark.
Ineos E&P A/S is the operator of the Hejre license, and the licensee for license 5/98 is 100 percent Ineos companies.
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