Norway’s Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Equinor to prepare the topside of the Troll C offshore platform to receive and process production from the Fram Sør tie-in.
Fram Sør will be developed as a subsea tie-in to Troll C and will utilise the existing processing capacity on the platform. The area is located 20 km north of the platform.
The tie-in requires certain modifications to the topside, and the contract scope for those modifications includes engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning, as well as services for the new subsea templates.
Aker Solutions has carried out the front-end engineering and design work for the project, led by its office in Bergen.
Project management, detailed engineering, procurement, and shop engineering will be handled by the Bergen and Mumbai offices. Fabrication will take place in the company’s yard in Egersund.
The project will begin immediately, with production scheduled to start at the end of 2029. The contract will be booked in the life cycle segment as order intake for the third quarter of 2025. No precise financial details were given, but the contract was described as sizeable, placing it between NOK 500m and 1.5bn ($50m and $150m).
