Saltfleetby Gas Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Wingas
  • Country: UK
  • Location: Lincolnshire
  • Production start: 1999
  • Partners:
  • Type: Gas
  • Estimated Reserves:
  • Production Volume:

+++ Description

  • Formerly the UK's largest onshore gas field, it is being converted into an underground gas storage facility
  • It will provide between 700 million to 800 million cubic metres of gas storage capacity
  • Gas is supplied to the Conoco operated Theddlethorpe Gas Processing Plant

+++ Contractors

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+++ History

  • 1999 - Production started
  • 2003 - The 7th well was drilled
  • 2004 - Wingas acquires the field from Roc Oil
  • 2010 - Permission granted to convert the field into a storage facility

+++ Geology

+++ Links

  1. WINGAS, Saltfleetby
  2. Drilling Underway At Saltfleetby Gas Field, Onshore United Kingdom
  3. WINGAS buys the "Saltfleetby" onshore natural gas field
  4. Energy security boost as go-ahead given to new gas storage capacity project