ABSTRACT
This chapter mainly focuses on the offshore oil and gas production in the southwestern Barents Sea, north of Norway, where the current oil and gas activities are focused and discusses other industrial operations as well. The chapter summarizes that a production facility's performance is dependent on the technology the organization and the humans involved in all phases of the life cycle. Modern industrial offshore production facilities are advanced, complex and integrated systems that are designed to safely, economically and continuously facilitate the transportation and processing of the oil, gas and water from the reservoir and the transformation into energy used by society. First the chapter looks on the general goals of production facility operations. Thereafter it discusses how the Arctic climate and locations affect these goals and finally what can be done to overcome the operational challenges in an Arctic environment.
