D15 Area Gas Fields

Summary Information

• Operator: Neptune
• Country: Netherlands
• Location: western side of the Dutch North Sea sector
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• Type: Oil / Gas
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Description

• The D15-A platform is a major treatment and compression complex located 195 km from Den Helder on the Dutch coast. It was installed in 1999 at a water depth of 40 metres. The platform accumulates gas from fields in both the Dutch and the British North Sea sectors. It includes a dehydration facility and two gas compressor units. POB capacity is 24 people.
• The D15-A platform treats and compresses gas produced by Wingate Gas Field, a third-party-operated field in the UK sector.
• It receives gas from the Minke Gas Field, also located on the UK side of the maritime border
• The various satellite platforms in the area are K9ab-A, K9ab-B, K9c-A, K2b-A, K12-B and D18a-A.
• Since 2020 gas from the Sillimanite Gas Field has been processed at the platform
• The gas produced in the area is transported via the Noordgastransport NGT Gas Pipeline offshore pipeline

Contractors

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History

• 2009 - the E17-A platform was installed
• 2016 - Minke field production ceased
• 2019 - the E17a-A6 well came onstream
• 2019 - Approval
• 2020 - First gas from Sillimanite

Links

1. Platforms Netherlands Continental Shelf
2. UK Oil and Gas Field Approved Decommissioning Programmes
3. KWsubsea Upheaval Buckling And Out Of Straightness Analysis
4. Serimax Europe Pipeline References