Kraken Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: EnQuest
- Country: UK
- Location: East Shetland basin, North Sea
- Production start:
- Partners: Cairn
- Type: Heavy Oil
- Estimated Reserves: 137 million barrels of oil
- Production Volume: Exp. 50,000 bpd
Description
- Kraken is a large heavy oil accumulation in the UK North Sea, located in the East Shetland basin, to the west of the North Viking Graben.
- The development will utilise the Kraken FPSO which will have a storage capacity of 600,000 barrels
- The field contains 137 million barrels of oil
- Gross peak oil production expected to be over 50,000 barrels of oil per day
Contractors
- **EPC Offshore:** Field development feasibility study
- **Bumi Armada:** Supply of FPSO
- **Technip:** engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPCI)
- fabrication and pipelay of approximately 50km of rigid pipe - 25km of metallurgically clad pipe and 25km of HDPE lined,
- installation of 3 umbilicals totaling 14km,
- installation of 7km of flexible risers and jumpers ,
- template and manifold installation at three drill centers,
- diverless tie-ins to pipelines and manifolds,
- pipeline flooding, hydro testing and leak testing.
- **SPX:** Oil well production pumps
History
- 1985 - Kraken Oil Field discovered
- 2010 - EPC Complete Kraken Development Feasibility Study
- 2011 - Successful drilling completed
- 2012 - Enquest acquires 45% of the field
- 2013 - UK government approval for the project
- 2013 - LOI signed with Bumi Armada for FPSO
Geology
- The Kraken reservoir comprises the Heimdal formation at a depth of 3850ft TVDSS with the main producing interval being the Heimdal unit III, where heavy oil of c.13.7° API is present.
Links
- EPC Complete Kraken Development Feasibility Study
- Kraken 9/02b-5Z Tests at 4,550 Barrels of Oil per Day
- EnQuest acquires 20% of Kraken Discovery
- EnQuest acquires a further 25% of the Kraken discovery
- Bumi Armada Secures Letter Of Interim Agreement For Its First North Sea FPSO Contract
- The £4 billion Kraken development has been approved by its owners and by DECC
- SPX Awarded Contract to Provide Oil Production Pumps for EnQuest's Kraken Field in the North Sea
- EnQuest selects Technip for a large subsea contract