Installation work for production platform N05-A in the North Sea will take place in summer 2024. The first natural gas will be available to Dutch and German households by the end of 2024.
After one and a half years of construction, the platform was ready to leave the yard and go on transport. At this moment, the production platform already in place in the North Sea. Several Dutch organisations are collaborating for this major operation.
Below is the broad outline of the planning from transport to production. This planning depends, among other things, on weather conditions.
The aim is to produce the first natural gasfrom platform N05-A in the winter of 2024/2025.
Construction of the gas pipeline is under way. A short, new natural gas pipeline of about 15 kilometres will be laid from production platform N05-A to the existing natural gas pipeline network of Noordgastransport (NGT). The temporary works are partly visible from the shore.
Due to poor weather conditions, the work has not yet been completed. It is expected that the installation ship will be able to leave in mid-February.
In autumn, ONE-Dyas drilled the first well from which natural gas can be produced from field N05-A in the Dutch part of the North Sea. Before drilling, a mobile drilling rig was temporarily at the project site. Now that the first well has been drilled, the mobile drilling platform has left again. The production platform N05-A will be used to produce the natural gas.
The N05-A production platform is installed in the North Sea at the beginning of August. The installation did take place using a crane vessel that runs on liquefied natural gas instead of the commonly used diesel. This minimises emissions during installation.
