© Supplied by Dana Petroleum Serica Energy has begun restarting production operations at its Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel after it was damaged in Storm Eowyn earlier this year.
The company added that production will commence shortly and ramp up as each field tied back to the FPSO is brought back onstream following the normal post maintenance start-up schedule, with a stable production level expected to be reached during July.
Before it was shutdown, the Triton FPSO was delivering 25,000 boepd net to Serica.
According to the group, this figure has the potential to be boosted through the addition of production from two new wells, both of which were delivered on schedule and under budget during the Triton downtime.
The Triton FPSO has suffered from frequent outages in recent months, weighing down the fortunes of Serica Energy.
Operated by South Korea’s Dana Petroleum, the vessel stopped production at the end of 2024, with operating resuming on 27 December after issues with its export gas compressor were dealt with.
These issues led to Serica dubbing its 2024 results as “disappointing” with output lower than expected. Now, the issues risk upsetting the group’s “promising” 2025.
However, it suffered damage in January from Storm Eowyn, which in turn revealed other issues, leading to the extended downtime.
Plans to restart Triton in mid-to-late March were pushed back to May.
During the shutdown, extensive repairs to the inert gas marine system were completed, with over 100 components on the system either replaced or refurbished.
Topside modifications were made in readiness to accept the start of production from the Belinda field expected in early 2026, significant safety critical maintenance work was also undertaken on the firewater system, and valves and sections of pipework across the FPSO were replaced.
The work done is expected to improve operational performance of the Triton FPSO significantly going forward, and there are no further planned outages for the Triton FPSO in 2025.
Serica Energy owns a 46% stake in the Triton FPSO area with operator Dana accounting for 52% of ownership and the remaining 2% is claimed by Waldorf,
The Evelyn, Bittern, Guillemot West and Guillemot Northwest, Gannet E, Clapham, Pict and Saxon fields are currently operated by the vessel.
Of these assets, Serica operates the Gannet E and Evelyn fields, Dana serves as the pipeline operator and Petrforc operates the wells.
