Exxonmobil new gas discovery, first gas production in UK Southern
Sorth Sea Fields
Posted: 18 December 2003
Exxon Mobil Corporation subsidiary, Mobil North Sea Limited (MNSL),
has made a gas discovery in the Southern sector of the North Sea,
following the successful testing of an exploration well in Block
53/2.
The exploration well is located 5 miles southeast of the MNSL-operated
Camelot field, about 32 miles east of Bacton, England. The well
encountered gas in the Rotliegend reservoir and tested at 65 million
cubic feet per day on an 80/64-inch choke. Data analysis and additional
studies are being conducted to fully evaluate this discovery, and
it is expected that this work will take several weeks. MNSL is the
operator of the well with 70 percent interest, with co-venturer
EOG Resources, Inc. holding the remaining 30 percent.
A second ExxonMobil unit, Esso Exploration and Production UK Limited,
has participated in the production of first gas from the Carrack
natural gas field, a Shell Exploration & Production-operated
project, also located in the Southern North Sea.
The Carrack field lies in a relatively remote area about 75 miles
northeast of Bacton off the English coast, close to the UK/Dutch
border. It holds estimated resources of around 300 billion cubic
feet of natural gas, which will be exported from the field to the
U.K. mainland.
The project has been developed around a central "hub"
platform located over the Carrack field from which four additional
wells are expected to be drilled within the next year, with the
capacity for more wells if required. A second, smaller platform
acts as a receiving facility for the Carrack gas production. These
new platforms and the 50-mile Carrack pipeline will facilitate tiebacks
of any future fields or exploration discoveries in the area.
Esso has a 48 percent equity interest in the project, with Shell
Exploration & Production holding the balance.
Commenting on these announcements, Andrew Swiger, chairman and
production director of ExxonMobil International Limited, said, "ExxonMobil
is the largest net producer of oil and gas in Europe, and the Camelot
and Carrack projects will contribute to our key asset and production
base in the North Sea's UK sector."
ExxonMobil is also one of the largest producers of oil and gas
in the UK, with interests in around 90 fields. In addition to its
operatorship of the Camelot field, MNSL also operates several other
producing assets in the Southern North Sea: the Lancelot, Guinevere,
Excalibur, Galahad and Malory Fields; and the Thames field complex
and the Welland platform off the Norfolk coast.
In the Northern North Sea, MNSL operates the Beryl Alpha and Beryl
Bravo platforms and the SAGE gas system and terminal at St. Fergus.
For more information see www.exxonmobil.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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