On Friday, Inoes, which is 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 in the field, whose expected production of oil and gas up to 2045 will make up seven per cent. of Denmark's total production from the North Sea. This is stated by the Danish Energy Agency in a press release.
With the approval, Ineos has been given permission to install an unmanned platform module on the existing Hejre jacket (steel leg structure), a new approx. 30 km long multiphase pipeline and a supply line to the Syd Arne platform.
Added to this is a new inlet module on Syd Arne's eastern wellhead platform and subsequent recovery. The Hejre field is planned to be produced with three production wells, which have been drilled and await final preparation for production.
The production from the Hejre field is planned to be processed by using the existing facilities at the Syd Arne plant together with the production from the Solsort and Syd Arne fields. The oil is taken to Syd Arne's storage tank on the seabed and exported from there using Syd Arne's existing buoy cargo system for tankers. The gas is carried 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 expansion plan are planned to begin in 2025 with the 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 extraction of the Hejre field has been affected by a number of delays in development, including technical and quality challenges in connection with the construction of the Hejre platform, which led to work being interrupted in 2016. The Hejre field is therefore only partially developed and is not put into production.
"Since 2016, the rights holders have reassessed the expected reserves and prepared an alternative technical and commercial solution for the final development of the Hejre field, which is adapted to a reduction of the reserves and a shorter production period compared to the original estimates from 2011," reads from the agency.
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 permit, and the right holder for permit 5/98 is 100 per cent. of Ineos companies.
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