Production at the Yme field has started

• Offshore at the Yme-field:
• The topsides construction and completion work started immediately after the arrival at the field in late December 2020. This work included the make safe preparations of the wellhead module, installation of flexible pipes and hook up spools on the wellhead module and Mærsk Inspirer, crude oil pumps, and many more completion activities.
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• During summer a series of subsea campaigns were carried out to prepare the Yme Beta North site for installation of the new subsea template, and rigid spools in preparation for the new wells to be drilled at the Beta North area in 2022. The spool fabrication was completed at Rosenberg in Stavanger before installation offshore.

• Yme starting producing in October.

• On 27 October 2021, Repsol Norge AS took over the day-to-day operations of the jack-up rig Inspirer (formerly Mærsk Inspirer) from Maersk Drilling. The Yme licensees will lease the rig from Havila Sirius AS under a bareboat charter.

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• Egersund in Norway:
• Modification and upgrading work continued in all areas of Mærsk Inspirer, and in the early autumn, work at the yard reached completion. Much of the work that remained was thorough testing of systems on board Mærsk Inspirer. In November the flexible jumpers were loaded onboard the rig to be installed offshore between the wellhead module and the rig. In December, the work on the rig was completed, and we prepared for the rig move awaiting suitable weather conditions. On 29 December, the Mærsk Inspirer left the yard in Egersund and arrived safely at the Yme field. Mærsk Inspirer in location at the field on 31 December. The project now entered the offshore hook-up and commissioning phase.
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• Offshore at Yme, in February the pre-commissioning activities of the Yme Beta and subsea loading system were completed together with the pull-in of the fibre optic cable. A subsea rock installation for the fibre optic cable and protection covers was performed in July.
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• Mærsk Inspirer in location at the field on 31 December. The project now entered the offshore hook-up and commissioning phase.

• Verdal in Norway:
• Fabrication work on the Caisson Permanent Support structure continued, including Site Integration Testing activities of the main clamp assembly to ensure a proper fit up. The support structure fabrication was completed in early May in preparation for load-out activities and offshore construction.
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• Egersund in Norway:
• In June the new hang-off module was completed and successfully installed on the Mærsk Inspirer rig. The new wellhead module was complete and put on barge to be transported offshore in August. In December the lifeboat frames were installed, and the interconnection module was lifted successfully in place.
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• Offshore at the Yme field:
• Subsea inspection activities were carried out at both Gamma and Beta readying the existing manifold, template, flowlines and umbilical for operation. The caisson permanent support diving and ROV preparation activities were completed in April. Installation of the Caisson Permanent Support was completed in June and in early July the Caisson Permanent Support was finally secured. The upgraded subsea control modules were installed in June. The new wellhead module was lifted successfully in place in September, and the new subsea oil loading system was installed in October. A rock installation vessel campaign prepared three rock pads to support the Mærsk Inspirer.

• In Grenaa in Danmark the upgrading of the Mærsk Inspirer rig took place with extensive scaffolding and painting of the rig. In June the old wellhead module was removed and replaced by a new independent one to be produced in Egersund in Norway. In July the rig was moved from Grenaa to Bergen in Norway for drydock work before transit to Egersund. Mærsk Inspirer arrived in Egersund in September and the modification work on the rig started together with the fabrication of the new wellhead module in October.
• In Verdal in Norway the construction of the Caisson Permanent Support started.
• Offshore at Yme: The old subsea loading system was recovered from the seabed, with parts reconditioned and reused in a new system engineered and fabricated in Bergen. Various ROV and diving vessel Campaigns were carried out to prepare the subsea installation of the Caisson Permanent Support. At the same time the original subsea control modules were recovered for upgrade and refurbishment in Stavanger and Trondheim.