	statoil places north sea veslefrikk field orders den norske stats oljeselskap a s statoil stat ol operator on norway s north sea veslefrikk oil field has placed field development contracts totalling billion crowns with two domestic yards the company said in a statement moss rosenberg verft a subsidiary of kvaerner industrier a s kvio ol won a billion crown contract to convert statoil s semisubmersible rig west vision to a floating production platform and to build the deck for a separate fixed well head platform to be placed on the field it said statoil said aker verdal a unit of aker norcem a s amvo ol won a mln crown contract to design and build the well head platform s tonne steel substructure to stand in metres of water next to the converted rig statoil said using a floating production unit rather than a fixed platform would cut construction time enabling field partners to bring veslefrikk on stream in late several months earlier than previously planned veslefrikk with estimated recoverable reserves of mln barrels oil and billion cubic feet gas is located km west of bergen statoil estimates the field s total development cost including drilling at billion crowns planned daily output is barrels oil and mln cubic feet gas veslefrikk s oil will be landed via the nearby oseberg field pipeline at the sture  terminal near bergen its gas will be fed into the statpipe line which gathers gas from norway s statfjord gullfaks and oseberg fields partners on the field are statoil the operator with a pct share unocal norge a s pct deminex norge a s pct norsk hydro a s nhy ol nine pct and svenska petroleum ab pct reuter 
