Shelley Oil Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Premier
  • Country: UK
  • Location: central North Sea
  • Production start: 2009
  • Partners:
  • Type: Oil & Gas
  • Estimated Reserves:
  • Production Volume:

+++ Description

  • The field has been developed using two horizontal subsea production wells equipped with downhole electric submersible pumps.
  • The wells are connected via a short flowline, and a control umbilical, to the Sevan Voyageur FPSO

+++ Contractors

  • **Sevan Marine:** Supply of FPSO
  • **Technip:** Engineering, installation and commissioning of pipelines, a control umbilical and jumpers(3), flexible risers(4), a subsea manifold and attendant flowline(5).

+++ History

  • 1984 - The Shelley field was discovered
  • 2008 - Project development approved by UK Government
  • 2009 - First oil produced
  • 2010 - Decommissioning approved

+++ Geology

+++ Links

  1. UK Oil and Gas Field Approved Decommissioning Programmes
  2. Technip awarded frame agreement for UK North Sea field developments
  3. Shelley first oil