Johan Sverdrup - Results after 1 Year of Production
By Senior Reservoir Engineers Håkon Sunde Bakka and Jonas Sørbel (Equinor)
Abstract:
Johan Sverdrup has been through a successful start-up that ramped up production to 470 000 barrels of oil per day in just 7 months, quickly becoming the largest oil producer on the Norwegian continental shelf. As a digital flagship in Equinor, digital solutions play an important role in maximising the value over the next 50 years. The presentation will dive into the experiences during the first year of operation and display some of the new technologies that are being applied to optimize production and operation of the field.
Biography:
Håkon Sunde Bakka has a master’s degree in reservoir engineering from the University of Stavanger. He joined Equinor as a graduate in 2016, and has since then worked as a reservoir engineer in the Johan Sverdrup project. From 2017 he’s worked with digital initiatives in subsurface, including leading the subsurface cloud platform implementation on Johan Sverdrup. Since 2019 he’s been working with fiber optics analysis, and from November 2020 he takes the over the responsibility as project lead for fiber optics in Equinor.
Jonas Sørbel is a Senior Reservoir Engineer in Equinor. He holds a MSc in reservoir engineering from NTNU in Trondheim. Since joining Equinor in 2015 he has been involved in the Gina Krog and Johan Sverdrup field developments on concept selections, drainage strategy evaluations and reservoir modelling. Since the Johan Sverdrup field start-up in 2019, he’s been leading the history matching effort on the reservoir model.