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Denmark’s Tyra field suffers

further delays

DENMARK THE restart of Denmark’s largest gas field at Tyra’s platform, which over many years of pro-
has been delayed for six to nine months, until duction had subsided, as well as the installation
The launch has been the final quarter of 2023 or the first quarter of of new jacket extensions. Once back online, the
pushed back to late 2024, its operators announced on August 3, in field should pump out 60,000 barrels of oil equiv-
2023 or early 2024. a major setback in the country’s efforts to limit alent per day (boepd) of gas.
gas imports. The restart is highly unfortunate for Den-
Operator TotalEnergies and its partner mark, which had its Russian gas supply cut off
Noreco cited global supply chain issues caused by at the end of May over Copenhagen’s refusal to
the ripple effect from the coronavirus (COVID- settle payments in rubles. This has forced the
19) pandemic, which have delayed fabrication country to rely on supplies from Norway and its
work on the field’s process module that has been other neighbours, compounding the European
completed at a shipyard in Batam, Indonesia. market’s tightness.
The process module will require additional work “Unfortunately, the delay in rebuilding Tyra
in order for Tyra to be relaunched, Noreco said, will prolong our dependence on gas from the
and TotalEnergies has also revised the plan for European market,” the deputy director of the
the hook-up and commissioning phase. Danish Energy Agency, Martin Hansen, was
The cost of the project has also risen as a quoted as saying by Reuters. “For a period we
result of the complications, from DKK21bn to will be more exposed in the event of reductions
DKK25.7bn ($3.5bn). in the gas supply from Germany.”
“Today’s news on a revised schedule for Tyra However, Denmark also has a relatively large
is disappointing; however, we are now entering amount of gas in storage relative to its consump-
the last stage of the Tyra redevelopment, with a tion – some 8.15 TWh, equivalent to 88.4% of
good definition of the work scope remaining to its capacity.
achieve first gas,” Noreco COO Marianne Eide Denmark had aspired to become a temporary
said. “We now have a robust plan built on expe- net exporter of gas starting next year, but those
rience from the initial nine months of offshore aspirations have been dropped in light of delays
hook-up and commissioning and we expect to at Tyra. There are limited prospects for growth
add more than 500 offshore workers.” in gas production at other projects in the coun-
Tyra was closed in September 2019 so that try – either in the short or long term – especially
redevelopment could take place. This pro- given the government’s ban on future explora-
gramme involves the replacement of the topsides tion introduced at the end of 2020. ™

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