Alder Gas and Condensate Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Ithaca
- Country: UK
- Location: North Sea
- Production start: 2016
- Partners: Chevron - 70%, Conocophillips - 25%, GDF-Suez - 5%
- Type: Gas And Condensate
- Estimated Reserves: 4,820 million scm of gas (recoverable)
- Production Volume:
Description
- The field was developed as a subsea tieback to the Britannia Gas Field
- The field development consists of drilling of up to two production wells and the installation of subsea infrastructure, including a production manifold, a 27 kilometre (km) production flowline to transport reservoir fluids to the Britannia BLP and a control and chemical umbilical.
- The Alder Field has a maximum estimated recovery of 4,820 million scm of gas over an estimated field life of 10 years.
- The project has a planned design capacity of 110 million cubic feet of natural gas and 14,000 barrels of condensate per day
Contractors
- **Technip:** engineering, manufacturing and installation:
- the detailed design and pipelay of a 28-kilometer 16” pipe-in-pipe system,
- the installation of a 28-kilometer hybrid umbilical
- various subsea works including the installation of a manifold structure including HIPPS, subsea isolation valve structure, valves and spoolpiece components.
History
- 2013 - Technip awarded subsea contract
- 2014 - Final investment decision and regulatory approval
- 2016 - First gas produced
- 2019 - Ithaca energy acquired Chevron's stake
- 2019 - Chrysaor acquired Conocophillips's stake in the field
- 2021 - Premier Oil and Chrysaor merge to create Harbour Energy
Geology
Links
- UK Oil and Gas Fields by Approval Date
- Serimax Pipeline References
- Technip awarded subsea contract by Chevron North Sea
- Chevron Makes Final Investment Decision on Alder Field in the United Kingdom
- Alder field achieves first gas
- Acquisition Of Chevron North Sea Limited
- ConocoPhillips Completes $2.7 Billion Sale of United Kingdom E&P Subsidiaries
- Harbour Energy to be admitted to trading