Western Isles Oil Fields, Barra and Harris
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Summary Information
- Operator: Dana
- Country: UK
- Location: Northern North Sea, 160km east of the Shetlands
- Production start: 2017
- Partners: Itochu
- Type: Oil
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume: Plateau production is expected to be around 40,000 boepd
+++ Description
- The Western Isles Development is producing from two oil fields called Harris and Barra in the Northern North Sea, 160km east of the Shetlands and 12km west of Tern field.
- It involves a subsea development of production and water injection wells tied back to a the Western Isles FPSO with oil export using shuttle tankers.
+++ Contractors
- **COSCO:** Construction of the FPSO
- **Sevan Marine:** Technology Licence for the cylindrically shaped FPSO
- **Subsea 7:** Engineering, procurement, construction and installation of two 2.5 kilometer pipeline bundles and a 11 kilometer gas export pipeline
- Diamond Offshore: Drilling of production wells
+++ History
- 2012 - Dana Petroleum started the detailed engineering design phase for the project
- 2012 - The Department of Energy and Climate Change has approved the development of the field
- 2013 - Subsea 7 awarded pipeline contract
- 2013 - Dana starts drilling operations
- 2014 - Production wells tested & Export pipeline installed
+++ Geology
+++ Links
- Western Isles Development Project
- Dana Petroleum’s Western Isles project moves ahead
- Dana $1.6bn oil and gas development gets go ahead
- Western Isles License- and Service Agreements Signed
- Subsea 7 S.A. awarded US$300 million North Sea contract
- Dana starts drilling operations on Western Isles project ahead of schedule
- Dana Petroleum’s Western Isles Project first well successfully tested
- Dana Petroleum’s Western Isles Project gas export pipeline successfully installed