Overview of a European offshore oil/gas rigs, refineries etc.

See field overview (2008):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Fergus_Gas_Plant

NOTE: It is essential to ensure that the field is still operational and that it is not close to depletion.

There are Norwegian, British and Danish sectors of the North Sea and all countries have several platforms located over a large area.

United Kingdom production of oil and gas

All BP fields in British territory are operated from their office in Dyce, Aberdeen. This includes some fields not strictly in the North Sea itself. Fields in the Norwegian sector are operated from Stavanger.

Onshore:

· Wytch Farm in Dorset

Southern North Sea:

· Amethyst gas field

· Cleeton gas field

· Ravenspurn gas field

· West Sole gas field

Central North Sea:

· Andrew oil field

· Cyrus oil field

ETAP complex

- Marnock

- Mungo

- Monan

- Machar

- Mirren

- Madoes

· Erskine gas field

· Everest gas field

· Harding oil field

· Lomond gas field

· Miller oil field

Northern North Sea:

· Bruce oil field

· Magnus oil field

West of Shetlands:

· Clair oil field

· Foinaven oil field

· Schiehallion oil field

Norwegian production of oil and gas

· Hod oil field

· Tambar oil field

· Ula oil field

· Valhall oil field

Other Norwegian fields:

· Ekofisk

· Troll oil field

· Statfjord oil field

· Gullfaks oil field

· Oseberg oil field

· Snorre oil field

· Sleipner gas field

· Heimdal gas field

French production of oil and gas

About 1.2 Mt (24,000 bbl/d) of oil and natural gas liquids are produced annually in France. This production is extracted from several dozen small fields located in the Paris Basin and the Aquitaine Basin.

Marketed gas production (1.1 billion cu.m per year, or 100 Mcftd) comes almost entirely from Aquitaine, with Lacq field deep pool accounting for about 75% of overall production.

Although France’s oil and gas production covers only a tiny part of domestic demand, it is nevertheless a source of economic value, as attested by the fact that some ten companies work in the two main basins. With oil prices at their current high level, this production is profitable, and would remain so even with considerably lower prices.

How to access to technical data on oil and gas exploration and production?

Much of the data is stored by the Office of Oil & Gas Exploration and Production (BEPH) and is easily accessible.

- BEPH publications give detailed information on oil and gas upstream activity in France.

- BEPH archives contain a virtually complete collection of documents related to oil wells drilled in France (almost 6000 wells). BEPH can also help companies to retrieve old geophysical data. Much of this data is easily available to the public at reasonable cost. This is particularly the case for well data.

- IFP (French Petroleum Institute) has published regional studies on the petroleum geology and prospectivity of France’s sedimentary basins.

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 873