Hurricane’s Lancaster FPSO on track for Christmas hook-up, Aberdeen operation relocated

Despite the stopover at the Spanish port of Algeciras several days ago for fuel bunkering and a crew change being extended to carry out power generation auxiliary system repairs, Hurricane Energy’s CEO, Dr Robert Trice says the production vessel Aoka Mizu should still be on station West of Shetland by Christmas.

If that is achieved, then Dr Trice is confident that first oil from the Lancaster field early production system will be achieved on schedule during during Q1 next year.

The repairs took less time than expected and, at noon yesterday the Aoka Mizu was off the north-west corner of Spain travelling at around eight knots and about to cross the Bay of Biscay en route to Rotterdam where it will pause for week or so.

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