Kingfish Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Exxon
- Country: Australia
- Location: Bass Strait, Gippsland Basin
- Production start: 1971
- Partners: BHP Billiton
- Type: Oil & Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
+++ Description
- Kingfish is the largest oil field ever discovered in Australia and has produced more than 1 Billion barrels of oil
- The Kingfish A (KFA), Kingfish B (KFB) and West Kingfish (WKF) platforms are located within Production Area VIC/L07 approximately 72 to 77 km off the Gippsland coast in approximately 77 to 78 m of water depth.
- The KFA, KFB and WKF platforms are fixed installations consisting of an eight-leg steel piled jacket structure
- The KFA platform is connected to the KFB platform by the KFA-KFB400 pipeline; the KFB platform is connected to the Halibut (HLA) platform by the KFB-HLA500 pipeline; and the WKF platform is connected to the KFA platform by the WKF-KFA300 pipeline.
- Oil is supplied from the Long Island Point Terminal
- Crude from the field is a constituent of the Gippsland Blend Crude Oil
- Gas is processed at the Longford Gas Conditioning Plant
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+++ History
- 1967 - Kingfish Oil Field discovered
- 1971 - Kingfish platform installed
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