Farragon Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: BP
- Country: UK
- Location: 140 miles North-east of Aberdeen
- Production start: 2005
- Partners: BP (operator) 50%, Eni (30%) and Nexen Petroleum U.K. Ltd (20%)
- Type: Oil
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
+++ Description
- The Farragon field is located 140 miles North-east of Aberdeen in Block 16/28, in the Central North Sea
- It is 14km from BP’s Andrew platform. It is tied to the existing Cyrus subsea development by a sixinch, 7km pipeline, and shares the pre-existing 10-inch Cyrus production pipeline to the Andrew platform for processing and export onwards to the Forties Pipeline System
+++ Contractors
- **Subsea 7:** Subsea tie-back to the Andrew Platform and includes production, gas lift and methanol pipelines utilising a pipeline bundle
+++ History
- 2003 - Farragon Oil Field discovered
- 2004 - Project development approved by UK Government
- 2005 - First oil
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