Prosafe Offshore’s Safe Scandinavia support vessel will be used by Statoil for the campaign.
Currently a flotel, the support will be modified to enable it to store and treat drilling fluid and cuttings once drilling operations start.
Statoil development and production Norway senior vice-president Kjetil Hove said, "We are expecting to increase the recovery rate on Oseberg Øst from around 20% to up to 30% when we drill the first planned wells."
"We also have the possibility of drilling more wells and further increasing the recovery rate towards 40%, which is almost double the rate in the plan for development and operation."
Statoil, the operator of the field, has 49.3% share in the exploration license.
The other partners are state-owned Petoro with 33.6%, Total E&P Norge with 14.7% and ConocoPhillips Skandinavia with 2.4%.
Image: Oseberg Øst is the smallest of the platforms in the Oseberg area. Photo: courtesy of Øyvind Hagen.
