West Sole Area Gas Fields

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Perenco
  • Country: UK
  • Location: Southern North Sea
  • Production start:
  • Partners:
  • Type: Oil / Gas
  • Estimated Reserves:
  • Production Volume:

Description

  • The West Sole Alpha platform consists of steel legged platforms, which includes process facilities and accommodation and receives gas and fluids from all of the associated tie-backs.
  • Processed gas and some fluids are routed to the onshore Dimlington Gas Terminal located on the Yorkshire coast via a 71.9 kilometre 16 inch diameter pipeline (PL28), through the West Sole Alpha platform through a 68 kilometre 24 inch diameter pipeline (PL145) and through the Amethyst A2D platform via a 47.7km 30 inch diameter pipeline (PL649).
  • Hyde, Hoton and Amethyst are tied back to the West Sole Hub

Contractors

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History

  • 1967 - Approval granted for development
  • 1993 - Hyde Platform installed
  • 2001 - Approval granted for Hoton
  • 2012 - Perenco acquired the fields from BP

Geology

Links

  1. UK Oil and Gas Fields by Approval Date
  2. BP agrees sale of southern gas assets to Perenco
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