Draugen oil field

The Garn Vest and Rogn Sør deposits have been developed with a total of five subsea wells connected to the main facility at Draugen.

[2] Additional resources in the Garn Vest structure came on stream in December 2001, while development of additional resources at the Rogn Sør structure were approved in the spring of 2001, coming on stream in January 2003.

In January 1997, it was decided to dispense with the maintenance-intensive drilling package on the Draugen platform because the well programme had been completed.

In 2003 it was sold to Russia and installed on the ship Ispolin for drilling in the Russian sector of the Caspian [3] In January 2008, a small amount of oil was spilled after a pipe broke while loading a tanker.

The oil being loaded into the Navion Scandia tanker was spilled when the pipeline pressure became too high.