Thames Gas Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Tullow
- Country: UK
- Location: 049/28, Southern North Sea
- Production start: 1986
- Partners:
- Type: Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
+++ Description
- The development includes 3 platforms, AP & AW manned platforms and AR unmanned
- The Thames Gas Field infrastructure is utilised by a number of satellite fields
- These fields include **Arthur Gas Field**, Bure Gas Field, Deben Gas Field, Gawain Gas Field, Horne Gas Field, Wren Gas Field
- Gas is exported to the Bacton Gas Plant
+++ Contractors
- The Thames platform was constructed by **Odebrecht** Oil & Gas Services, based on their existing Sea Harvester design.
- Other key contracts included installation by **Seaway Heavy Lift**, pipe and umbilical lay by **Stolt Comex Seaway**, subsea trees by **Vetco Gray**, control systems by FSSL, and protective structures by **AMEC Offshore**.
- Development drilling was conducted by **Rowan Drilling**
- **Saipem:** Pipeline installation
- **Stolt Offshore:** Arthur pipeline installation
+++ History
- 1973 - The Thames Field is discovered
- 1985 - Development approval awarded
- 1986 - First gas is produced
- 2001 - BP sells ARCO's share of the field to Tullow
- 2003 - Tullow acquires a 23.33% stake from ENI
- 2004 - Arthur Gas Field development approved
+++ Geology
- The reservoir is made up predominantly of aeolian dune sandstones of the Rotliegendes Leman Sandstone Formation. The fields lie on the upthrown side of NW-SE-trending fault blocks in the central part of Block 49/28
+++ Links
- UK Oil and Gas Fields by Approval Date
- List Of Oil and Gas Production Platforms In The UK
- FoundOcean Europe Subsea References
- Saipem Pipeline References
- Serimax Europe Pipeline References
- BP Fulfils EC Undertaking With Gas Sale To Tullow Oil
- Tullow Oil proposes to acquire additional equity in the Thames gas fields from Eni
- Two New Gas Reservoirs for Thames Complex
- The Thames, Yare and Bure Fields, Block 49/28, UK North Sea