Shearwater Gas and Condensate Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Shell
- Country: UK
- Location: Central North Sea
- Production start:
- Partners: Exxon
- Type: Gas & Condensate
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- Shearwater is a high pressure/high temperature field located 125 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland in about 300 feet of water.
- The Shearwater Platform is a fixed manned Installation comprising a wellhead platform connected by an 80m bridge to an integrated process, utilities and living quarter platform.
- The **Scoter field**, the Merganser field and the **Starling field** are all tie backs to the Shearwater Platform
- The Arran field will be tied back to Shearwater
- Gas from the field is exported to the Bacton terminal via a 300-mile pipeline named the Shearwater-Elgin Area Line (SEAL) Gas Pipeline. The SEAL pipeline is jointly owned by the Shearwater partners and partners in the Elgin/Franklin fields.
- Liquids from all the fields are evacuated via a spur line into the existing Forties Pipeline System.
Contractors
- **AMEC:** Shearwater Platform Construction
- **Hereema:** Module construction
- **KWSubsea:** Detailed design of 33km of 12"/20" production pipein-pipe and tie-in spools from Starling manifold to Shearwater platform
- **J P Kenny:** Detail design of the Scoter Riser at Shearwater and the Scoter Manifold
History
- 1991 - Shearwater Gas And Condensate Field discovered
- 1997 - Approval received for development
- 2001 - Government approval given to Scoter
- 2007 - Starling field approval given
- 2018 - Arran field approval given
- 2021 - Exxon sells its stake to HitecVision
Geology
Links
- 2013 Annual Environmental Statement for Shell U.K
- UK Oil and Gas Fields by Approval Date
- List Of Oil and Gas Production Platforms In The UK
- List Of Oil Production Platforms In The UK
- KWSubsea Subsea References
- J P Kenny Subsea References
- ARCO, Partners Receive Go-Ahead for Shearwater, Elgin/Franklin Projects in UK Central North Sea
- ExxonMobil to sell U.K. upstream central and northern North Sea assets
