Type:
Oil
Facility:
Production
Water Depth:
71
Installed:
2002
meters
Block:
46363
Design:
Fixed steel
Sub Structure:
4328
Topsides Wgt:
9463
tonnes
tonnes
Intro
Ula PP (Production/Processing Platform) is a central integrated platform in the Ula field area of the southern Norwegian North Sea, part of a trio of Ula facilities handling drilling, production and processing. Installed in the mid-1980s, it processes oil and gas from Ula and tied-in satellite fields like Tambar, Oda and Blane.
Field
The Ula field, discovered in 1976, lies in the southern Norwegian North Sea in ~70-m water depth. It produces oil and associated gas from Upper Jurassic sandstone reservoirs. Ula serves as a production hub for subsea satellites such as Tambar, Oda and Blane, enabling reservoir support and export.
Facilities
Ula PP hosts the primary processing and production systems for the Ula area, integrating multiple wellstreams from production wells and subsea tie-backs. The platform’s topsides include multiphase separation, gas compression, dehydration and gas reinjection systems; stabilised crude is metered and routed into export lines via Ekofisk and onward to Teesside (UK). Utilities encompass power generation, produced water treatment, water-alternating-gas (WAG) and gas-lift support systems to enhance recovery, and control systems integrated across wing platforms. Subsea infrastructure comprises flowlines and umbilicals connecting to satellites like Tambar’s unmanned wellhead platform. The rig also includes accommodation modules and safety shutdown systems designed for extended field life into the late 2020s.
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