Calder Gas Field

Summary Information

• Operator: Conocophillips
• Country: UK
• Location: East Irish Sea
• Production start:
• Partners: Conocophillips - 100%
• Type: Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

+++ Description

• Calder in the East Irish Sea produces sour gas.
• It was developed with an unmanned platform and three development wells feeding to a producing platform and then through a pipeline to the Rivers Terminal at Barrow-in-Furness, which provides compression, hydrogen sulfide removal and metering.
• Options for developing the additional sour gas fields of Darwen, Crossens and Asland to feed into the Rivers Terminal will be considered once the Calder Field begins to decline.

+++ Contractors

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+++ History

• 2002 - Government approval granted
• 2004 - First gas produced
• 2019 - Chrysaor acquired Conocophillips's stake in the field
• 2021 - Premier Oil and Chrysaor merge to create Harbour Energy

+++ Geology

+++ Links

1. Fact Sheet Europe
2. UK Oil and Gas Fields by Approval Date
3. List Of Oil Production Platforms In The UK
4. Centrica lands first gas from Irish Sea Rivers fields
5. Shell to sell package of UK North Sea assets to Chrysaor for up to $3.8bn
6. ConocoPhillips Completes $2.7 Billion Sale of United Kingdom E&P Subsidiaries
7. Harbour Energy to be admitted to trading