Subsea tie back will in the coming years make up a greater part of NCS development projects to utilize existing infrastructure hence operators ILX strategies and area maturity.

Some of these prospects and reserves have challenging economy and thereby will require a different development strategy to be economical and to be drained.

Equinor have investigated concepts to recover such marginal volumes, by ensuring faster execution duration and lower capex investments.

Enablers for such developments may be scope framing, standardized modular concepts, well solutions, reuse of equipment, project development model and team setup.

These hypotheses have been matured and pilot project have been initiated to test the enablers.