Serica Energy Restarts Triton FPSO Production

U.K.-based oil firm Serica Energy has resumed production at Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in the North Sea, following the outage caused by a technical issue.

Serica Energy said the production into the Triton FPSO resumed on December 27, 2024, with a phased restart of the producing and new wells ongoing.

Following extensive root cause analysis and remedial work, the export gas compressor was restarted successfully and gas exports commenced on December 29, the company informed.

The process of restarting Triton was at the longer end of expectations communicated earlier, and the company also experienced a short period of unscheduled downtime on the Bruce platform related primarily to a subsea intervention to ensure enhanced production reliability on the Rhum field.

According to Serica Energy, these factors contributed for its annual 2024 production to average at 34,600 boepd across the year.

As of January 5, 2025, overall production net to Serica totalled 46,400 boepd.

“With the planned phased restart of the Triton fields, we expect this rate to increase, ramping up to full run-rate production as all wells, including new production from the Gannet GE05 well, are brought online.

“The resumption of operations with two-compressors at Triton, which the