Manifold Installed at Neptune-operated Seagull in the UK
Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners bp and JAPEX have completed the installation of the manifold and umbilical for the Seagull project in the U.K. Central North Sea.TechnipFMC, working under the Neptune Energy Alliance Agreement, undertook the construction activities on the development from the CSV Deep Star vessel. The activities included the installation of the 350te Seagull manifold, the pull-in and installation of the 17 kilometers control umbilical between the bp-operated ETAP platform and manifold, and the installation of a Wye Structure and associated operations.Neptune Energy’s
CGG Announces Largest Ever Seabed Survey
French geoscience company CGG said it will perform its largest seabed survey to date in the UK Central North Sea.Prefunded in part by BP, the multi-client ocean-bottom node (OBN) seismic survey has already received significant industry interest, CGG said. Operations are scheduled to begin in early 2020, with first results targeted for the first quarter of 2021. CGG said it aims to acquire over 2,000 square kilometers of OBN data in the first phase of this multi-year program."In the Central North Sea, where complex salt diapirism has created significant challenges to imaging deeper reservoir
Mooring Change-out for the Alba FSU
through ChainCo’s quayside yard in Montrose, UK.The project was completed on schedule within all design tolerances and with no disruption to the FSU operation throughout.Discovered in 1984 in Block 16/26, the Alba heavy oil field field lies about 210 kilometers northeast of Aberdeen, in the UK Central North Sea. First oil was achieved in January 1994.In addition to the FSU (the first purpose-built for the UK sector of the North Sea), field facilities include a fixed steel platform, the Alba Northern Platform, and the Alba Extreme South subsea production center added in 2001.Alba crude oil is offloaded
Play Fairway Mapping is Key in the North Sea
exploration success, and can be used for rapid assessment of acreage in mature, underexplored and frontier basins. Ternan, a wholly owned subsidiary of LR Senergy, has had a long history of publishing play fairway reports, the first of which was released in 2003. This report covered the U.K. Central North Sea and was closely followed by reports on the UK Northern North Sea, the Norwegian North Sea, the U.K. Atlantic Margin and the Irish Atlantic Margin, on behalf of the Irish government. The 2015 Ternan report builds on the three previous North Sea studies to provide an integrated
DNV GL Approves Pipeline Isolation Tools
are fully compliant to the highest standards and are ‘ready to go’ without the need for further work or adaptation by the end-user. To date, UK-headquartered STATS have completed more than 200 Tecno Plug deployments, including recent isolations in Oman, Malaysia, Canada and the UK Central North Sea – with high profile projects including the isolation of the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) for Apache North Sea Ltd. STATS patented BISEP provides high pressure intervention and isolation through a single hot tap penetration. Since its development less than 10 years ago, STATS has
New Oil Field Found in British North Sea
GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd and BP today announced a new exploration discovery in the UK Central North Sea. The discovery, which spans GDF SUEZ operated block 30/1f (licence P1588) and BP operated block 30/1c (licence P363) was flow tested at a maximum rate of 5,350 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The discovery, referred to as ‘Marconi’ by GDF SUEZ and ‘Vorlich’ by BP, is located in the Central North Sea. Ruud Zoon, Managing Director of GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd said: “This is an encouraging exploration discovery in a part of the Central North Sea that needs
February 2024
