North Sea Oil Platforms

North Sea oil refers to oil and natural gas (hydrocarbons) produced from oil reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In the oil industry, "North Sea" often refers to a larger geographical set, including areas such as the norwegian sea and the UK "Atlantic Margin" (west of Shetlands) that are, strictly speaking, not part of the north sea. Image File history File links North_Sea_Oil_Platforms. ... Image File history File links North_Sea_Oil_Platforms. ... Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ... Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... Hydrocarbons are refined at oil refineries and processed at chemical plants A hydrocarbon is a chemical compound that consists only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). ... An oil reservoir, petroleum system or petroleum reservoir is often thought of as being an underground lake of oil, but it is actually composed of hydrocarbons contained in porous rock formations. ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ...

History

North Sea oil was discovered in the early 1960s ,with the first North Sea oil coming on line in 1971 and being piped ashore at Teesside, England, from 1975, but the fields were not intensively exploited until rising oil prices in the 1980s made exploitation economically feasible. Inaccessibility and dangerous conditions offshore require complex and expensive production methods. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Arms of the County Borough of Teesside Teesside is the name given to the conurbation in northern England based on Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees and Redcar, along the banks of the River Tees with a resident population of over 388,000 in 2005. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Oil crisis may refer to: 1973 oil crisis 1979 energy crisis 1990 spike in the price of oil Oil price increases of 2004 and 2005 Hubbert peak theory Energy crisis This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ...

In reality, oil seeps had been known from coal beds on either side of the North Sea, but only a limited amount of development had occurred (Eakring oil field, Nottinghamshire, England; Edinburgh Oil Shales (which seem unrelated to later discoveries); and small discoveries in the Netherlands and Northern Germany). A "demonstration well" was sunk in 1938 in association with the "World Petroleum Congress" at The Hague. After the Second World War a small number of onshore gas and oil fields were found in In 1959, an academic well drilled at Ten Boer near Groningen, Netherlands was deepened and discovered a significant gas deposit. Appraisal and development wells over the next few years brought the realisation in 1963 that the Groningen field was not just "economic", nor even "big", or "large", or "giant", but was an "elephant" field of huge potential. Given that, extending exploration into adjacent areas was a "no-brain" decision. Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ...

The exploration of the North Sea has been a story of continually pushing the edges of the technology of exploitation (in terms of what can be produced) and later the technologies of discovery and evaluation (2-D seismic, followed by 3-D and 4-D seismic; sub-salt seismic; immersive display and analysis suites and supercomputing to handle the flood of computation required). The space we live in is three-dimensional space. ... Cube with fourth-dimensional directions (ana/kata) creating a hypercube. ...

Licensing

There are five countries with North Sea Production. All operate a tax and Royalty licensing regime. The respective sectors are divided by median lines agreed in the late 1960s:

• United Kingdom - licences are administered by the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry- Website). The UKCS is divided into quadrants of 1 degree latitude and one degree longitude. Each quadrant is divided into 30 blocks measuring 10 minutes of latitude and 12 minutes of longitude. Some blocks are divided further into part blocks where some areas are relinquished by previous licensees. For example block 13/24a is located in quad 13 and is the 24th block and is the a part block of this block. The UK government has traditionally issued licences via periodic (now annual) licensing rounds. Blocks are awarded on the basis of the work programme bid by the participants. The UK DTI has been very active in attracting new entrants to the UKCS via Promote licensing rounds (less demanding terms) and the fallow acarage initiative where non-active licences have had to be relinquished.
• Norway - licences are administered by the NPD (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Website in English ). The NCS is also divided into quads of 1 degree by 1 degree. Norwegian licence blocks are larger than British blocks, being 15 minutes of latitude by 20 minutes of longitude (12 blocks in a quad). Like Britain there are numerous part blocks formed by relicensing relinquished acreage.
• Denmark - The Danish sector is administered by the Danish Energy Authority (website in English). The Danes also divide their sector of the North Sea into 1 degree by 1 degree quadrants, their blocks however are 10 minutes latitude by 15 minutes longitude. Part blocks exist where partial relinquishments have taken place.
• Germany - Germany and the Netherlands share a quadrant and block grid - quadrants are given letters rather than numbers. The blocks are 10 minutes latitude by 20 minutes longitude. Germany has the smallest sector in the North Sea.
• Netherlands - The Dutch sector is located in the Southern Gas Basin and shares a grid pattern with Germany.

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Reserves and production

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Most oil companies have investments in the North Sea. Peaking in 1999, production of North Sea oil was nearly 6 million barrels (950,000 m³) per day. Natural gas production was nearly 10 trillion cubic feet (280,000,000,000 m³) in 2001 and continues to increase. The oil industry is a type of industry which brings petroleum to a market. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The barrel is the name of several units of measurement. ... Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... This article is about the year 2001. ...

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North Sea oil production fell ten percent (230,000 barrels) in 2004, and fell an additional 12.8% in 2005. This was the largest decrease of any other oil exporting nation in the world, and has led to Britain becoming a net importer of crude for the first time in decades, as recognized by the energy policy of the United Kingdom. [1]. The production is expected to fall to one-third of its peak by 2020 ^{[citation needed]}. Energy policy of the United Kingdom is a set of official publications and activities directed at the present and future production, transmission and use of various power technologies. ... 2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

List of areas ("plays")

A play is a collection of fields or structures with common features of source rock, thermal history, trap style and structure that make lessons from the discovery and development of one field on a play closely applicable to other similar structures. In stratigraphic order:

Devonian

• Devonian Old Red Sandstone - see Buchan oil field

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Carboniferous and Permian

• Sub-Zechstein Gas - Gas fields sourced from the Carboniferous Coal Measures and reservoired in the Permian Rotliegend sandstone or Carboniferous sandstones in the Northern part of the Southern Gas basin. Zechstein dolomite reservoirs alos exist (e.g. Auk oilfield) . Seals are from Zechstein (also of Permian age) halite beds. Structures are mostly due to rifting in the pre-salt section. Example field - the discovery for the entire province at Groningen, Netherlands.

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Triassic

The Triassic play is located in the Central North Sea. The reservoir is composed of fluvial and lacustrine sandstones of the Skaggerak formation. Fields with Triassic reservoirs include J-Block (Judy, Jade, Joshephine) and Marnock The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 200 Ma (million years ago). ...

Triassic reservoirs are also important in the East Irish Sea (Morecambe gas field, Sherwood Sandstone) and Southern North Sea (Hewett gasfield complex - Bunter sandstone)

Middle Jurassic

Northern North Sea tilted fault blocks; Brent Series deltaic sands of Bathonian age. In 1971 the Shell/ Esso joint venture drilled a poorly resolved structure in block 211 and found a classical prograding delta sand sequence (the Brent Sands overlain by a good source rock (the Kimmeridge Clay Formation, broke up into tilted fault blocks due to crustal extension, and the whole sealed by the lateral equivalent of the Chalk, the muddy Shetland Group. Several billion barrels of oil later, the Brent Field is being depressurised in the mid 2000s with shutdown looming on the horizon. Economically, this is the major play in the North Sea. In the geologic timescale, the Bathonian is the age of the Middle Jurassic epoch of the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic era of the Phanerozoic eon that is comprehended between 167 million 700 thousand and 164 million 700 thousand years ago, approximatedly. ... Nile River delta, as seen from Earth orbit. ... The Kimmeridge Clay Formation is, arguably, the most economically important unit of rocks in the whole of Europe, being the major source rock for oil fields in the North Sea hydrocarbon province. ... The Needles, part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. ...

Upper Jurassic

• Upper Jurassic Central North Sea, Fulmar Play - The Oxfordian Age Fulmar sandstone is a shallow marine unit present in the southern part of the Central Graben. It is also present in the Norwegian sector where it is called the Ula formation. This reservoir is very good quality with high porosities which can be preserved under deep (6000m) burial in high pressure high temperature (HPHT) fields such as Elgin, Franklin and Shearwater.
• Upper Jurassic Turbidites - These Kimmeridgian/Volgian sandstone reservoirs are found in the Outer Moray Firth. The Buzzard Field, the largest discovery in recent years has an Ettrick formation turbidite reservoir.
• Fanglomerates against faults. In the late 1980s seismic along some of the major "bounding faults" of the main basins of the North Sea revealed wedges of sediment which evidently piled up while the faults were still moving (syndepositional faulting). Magnus, Tiffany, Toni and Thelma follow this play, with many smaller developments being developed along-strike since as sub-sea tie-back technology develops

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Lower Cretaceous

The Lower Cretacous play developed in the 1980s and 1990s. The reservoir rocks are Aptian / Albian turbidites. Most discoveries are stratigraphic traps . Examples include the Britania gas field and the Blake oil field The Cretaceous Period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period (i. ... In the geologic timescale, the Aptian is the age of the Lower Cretaceous epoch of the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era of the Phanerozoic eon that is comprehended between 125 and 112 million years ago, approximately. ... Albian (Fr. ...

Upper Cretaceous

Chalk oil - The first major oil discovery was in 1969 by Phillips in the Ekofisk field of the Central North Sea (56°30'N 3°10'E). Source is Kimmeridge Clay Formation. Oil and gas generated early after deposition invaded the Cretaceous Chalk sediments and displaced the water necessary for compactional diagenesis (with later consequences). Structures are broad anticlines cored either by salt diapirs or Pre-Cretaceous Horsts. The Needles, part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. ... ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an international energy company with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. ... Ekofisk is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. ... The Kimmeridge Clay Formation is, arguably, the most economically important unit of rocks in the whole of Europe, being the major source rock for oil fields in the North Sea hydrocarbon province. ...

Palaeocene

Central North Sea Tertiary turbidite sand fans - the Forties field (57°45'N 01°E) targeted a series of sand fans in mudstone surrounds and capped by Palaeocene Basalts. Source was Kimmeridge Clay Formation again. The Forties was discovered the year after Ekofisk, following several years of frustration in failing to adequately resolve these structures and find a major field. Tertiary period was previously one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, from the end of the Cretaceous period about 65 million years ago to the start of the Quaternary period about 1. ... USGS image Turbidite geological formations have their origins in turbidity current deposits, deposits from a form of underwater avalanche that are responsible for distributing vast amounts of clastic sediment into the deep ocean. ... The Paleocene epoch (65-56 MYA) (early dawn of the recent) is the first geologic epoch of the Palaeogene period in the modern Cenozoic era. ... The Kimmeridge Clay Formation is, arguably, the most economically important unit of rocks in the whole of Europe, being the major source rock for oil fields in the North Sea hydrocarbon province. ...

• Over-salt Sands. In the Central North Sea a large number of salt domes could early be seen to penetrate from the Zechstein up into the Tertiary cover rocks, but without adequate seismic they weren't considered good targets for development. Better seismic allows the development of numerous small fields around or above these structures. Individual fields are mostly small, but can be accommodated by tie-ing the fields back to existing facilities. Tie-in pipelines and control umbilicals of over 10 km are not unknown, despite serious technical difficulties (such as plugging of lines with methane hydrates or the rock stresses associated with piercement diapirs.)

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List of fields

South to north.

Netherlands

• • Onshore
    • Rijswijk oil field - An Oilfield with a Lower Cretaceous reservoir
    • Schoonebeek - largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe
    • Groningen gas field - huge gas discovery
  • Offshore (serviced from The Hague
    • Zuidwal
    • Ameland - (whether this will be developed onshore of offshore is an open question)
    • Many fields in Quadrantrs P, Q, K, L, some in blocks E, F

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United Kingdom

Reference DTI Brown book

• • Onshore
    • Wytch Farm - BP's largest onshore development
    • Singleton, West Sussex - beautifully situated across the valley from Goodwood Racecourse
    • (several other prospects along strike on the South Downs)
    • East Midlands oilfield, centred on Eakring, Nottinghamshire, and extending up to Eskdale, North Yorkshire and the Pickering / Kirkby Misperton structure under Ryedale.
  • Offshore (Southern North Sea) (serviced from Lowestoft, Monkey Town, Yarmouth and near Skegness)
    • Hewett - Triassic, operated by Tullow oil
    • Dotty - Triassic
    • Leman - Rotliegend
    • Vulcan - Rotliegend, operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Indefatigable - Rotliegend
    • Viking - Rotliegend - operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Audrey - Rotliegend - operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Ann - Rotliegend - operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Amethyst -Rotliegend -operated by BP
    • West Sole gasfield -Rotliegend
    • Rough gasfield - used for Natural gas storage
    • Cleeton gasfield - Rotliegend
    • Ravenspurn gasfield - Rotliegend
    • Caister gasfield - Carboniferous sandstone, - operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Murdoch gasfield- Carboniferous sandstone, - operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Gordon gasfield - Triassic
    • Forbes gasfield - Triassic
    • Esmond gasfield - Triassic
  • Offshore Irish Sea Serviced from Liverpool, Blackpool and Morecambe
    • Douglas gas field - Triassic, operated by BHP
    • Lennox gas field - Triassic, operated by BHP
    • Hamilton gas field - Triassic, operated by BHP
    • Morecambe gas field - Triassic, Operated by Centrica
    • Millom gasfield - Triassic, operated by Burlington Resources
  • Offshore (Central North Sea) (serviced from Aberdeen
    • Argyll oilfield - Rotliegend / Zechstein
    • Auk oilfield - Rotliegend / Zechstein, Operated by Shell Oil
    • Clyde oilfield - Fulmar sandstone operated by Talisman Energy
    • Fulmar oilfield - Fulmar sandstone, Operated by Shell Oil
    • J-Block gasfield - Triassic, Chalk and Palaeocene, operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Elgin and Franklin gasfields - Fulmar sandtone and Middle Jurassic, operated by Total S.A.
    • Shearwater Gasfield - Fulmar - operated by Shell oil
    • Erskine gasfield -Middle Jurassic sandstone - operated by Chevron
    • Gannet oilfield (A, B, C, D, E, and F) - Paleocene and Jurassic - operated by Shell
    • Scoter oilfield -operated by Shell
    • Pierce oilfield - Paleocene (non-horizontal Oil-Water Contact), Operated by Shell Oil
    • ETAP gas field comaplex includes Marnock, Machar, Monan and Mirren fields, Operated by BP
    • Arbroath oilfield - Plaeocene, Forties Sandstone, operated by Talisman Energy
    • Blane oil field - Paleocene, Forties Sandstone, operated by Talisman Energy
    • Montrose oilfield - Paleocene, Forties Sandstone, operated by Talisman Energy
    • Lomond gasfield - Palaeocene, Forties Sandstone operated by BP
    • Everest gasfield - Palaeocene, Forties Sandstone operated by BP
    • Armada gasfields - Palaeocene and Jurassic Fulmar, operated by BG Group
    • Kittiwake oilfield -operated by Shell
    • Nelson oilfield - Palaeocene, Forties Sandstone, Operated by Shell Oil
    • Forties oilfield - Palaeocene, Forties Sandstone operated by Apache Corp.
    • Brittania gasfield - Lower Cretaceous, Operated by ConocoPhillips and Chevron
    • Alba oilfield - Eocene operated by Chevron
    • Buchan oil field - Devonian Sandstone - Operated by Talisman Energy
    • Ettrick oilfield - Upper Jurassic
    • Buzzard oilfield - Upper Jurassic operated by Encana, largest discovery in last 10 years
    • Andrew oilfield - Palaeocene
    • Moira oilfield - Palaeocene
    • Maureen oilfield - Palaeocene (abandoned, platform removed was operated by Phillips Petroleum)
    • Cyrus oilfield - Palaeocene
    • Balmoral oilfield - Palaeocene
    • Gryphon oilfield- Eocene Operated by Maersk
    • Harding oilfield - Eocene Operated by BP
    • Tiffany oilfield - Upper Jurassic
    • Toni oilfield - Upper Jurassic (subsea tie back to Tiffany)
    • Thelma oilfield - Upper Jurassic (subsea tie back to Tiffany)
    • Sycamore oilfield - Upper Jurassic (subsea tie back to Tiffany and Brae)
    • Brae oilfield Upper Jurassic (several satellite accumulations) operated by Marathon Oil
    • Miller oilfield
  • Offshore (Moray Firth) (Serviced from Aberdeen)
    • Beatrice oilfield- Upper Jurassic operated by Talisman Energy
    • Unnamed, yet, Senergy
    • Claymore oilfield - Upper Jurassic operated by Talisman Energy
    • Piper oilfield - Upper Jurassic operated by Talisman Energy(produced from Piper Bravo platform after loss of Piper Alpha
    • Tartan oilfield - Upper Jurassic operated by Talisman Energy
    • Scott oilfield - Upper Jurassic operated by Talisman Energy
    • Ross oilfield - Upper Jurassic (small development by Talisman Energy; within sight of Peterhead)
    • Blake oilfield -Lower Cretaceous, operated by BG Group

• • Offshore (Northern North Sea) (serviced from Aberdeen)
    • Beryl oilfield upper Jurassic operated by ExxonMobil (with offshoots to Linhe, Ness...)
    • Bressay oilfield
    • Emerald oilfield
    • Strathspey oilfield (decommissioned? subsea tie-back to Ninian Central)
    • Columba oilfield (extended-reach drilling from Ninian platforms)
    • Ninian oilfield (3 platforms, including the dreaded "one legged, fire-breathing giant from Nigg", if you believe in Scotland's answer to Nostradamus, the Seer of Brathan)
    • Lyell oilfield
    • Heather oilfield Middle Jurassic operated by DNO
    • Brent oilfield Middle Jurassic operated by Shell (4 main platforms, plus the Brent Spar fiasco.)
    • Dunlin oilfield Middle Jurassic operated by Shell
    • Hutton oilfield (produced from the innovative Tension-leg platform; decommissioned 2001 was operated by Conoco)
    • Cormorant oilfield Middle Jurassic operated by Shell, (production started sweet, but has turned slightly sour over the decades. which is very interesting. And worrying.)
    • Tern oilfield Operated by Shell Oil (The 'Black Pig' to its friends. Captain Pugwash reference.)
    • Eider oilfield Middle Jurassic operated by Shell
    • Murchison oilfield Straddles the Norwegian median line.
    • Don oilfield
    • Magnus oilfield Big BP rust bucket. Crane is good at dropping logging units.
  • Offshore (West of Shetland) (Serviced from Aberdeen)
    • Clair oilfield A large, but high viscosity field.
    • Schiehallion oilfield
    • Foinaven oilfield

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Apache Corporation NYSE: APA is an independent oil and gas corporation based in Houston, Texas. ... ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an international energy company with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. ... Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is one of the worlds largest global energy companies. ... The Buchan Oil field is located in the Central North Sea approximately 120 miles North East of Aberdeen in an area known as the South Halibut Basin (Wood Mackenzie 2002). ... Talisman Energy TSX: TLM is one of Canadas largest petroleum companies. ... EnCana Corporation is one of the worlds largest independently owned oil and gas companies. ... ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) was founded by the merger of the Conoco Inc. ... Maersk Containers The A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, is an international business consortium involved in a variety of business sectors, primarily transportation. ... The Brae field is quite unusual in the North Sea context in that it is a conglomerate pile adjacent to a fault scarp, the whole wrapped up with and interdigitated by claystones of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation. ... Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO), based in Houston, Texas, is a worldwide oil and natural gas exploration and production company. ... For other uses, see Aberdeen (disambiguation). ... Talisman Energy TSX: TLM is one of Canadas largest petroleum companies. ... Talisman Energy TSX: TLM is one of Canadas largest petroleum companies. ... Substantial North Sea oilfield, piped to the UK into a pupose built refinary on the island of Flotta, in the Orkney Islands. ... Talisman Energy TSX: TLM is one of Canadas largest petroleum companies. ... The Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. ... Talisman Energy TSX: TLM is one of Canadas largest petroleum companies. ... Talisman Energy TSX: TLM is one of Canadas largest petroleum companies. ... Talisman Energy TSX: TLM is one of Canadas largest petroleum companies. ... Peterhead is a town in Scotland with a population of approximately 18,000. ... BG Group Plc is an energy production and distribution company which is headquartered in Reading outside London, England. ... For other uses, see Aberdeen (disambiguation). ... Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), headquartered in Irving, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, USA, is the largest publicly traded integrated oil and gas company in the world, formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... Nostradamus original portrait by his son Cesar Nostradamus (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566), Latinised name of Michel de Nostredame, was one of the worlds most famous publishers of prophecies. ... The Brahan Seer, known in his native Scottish Gaelic as Coinneach Odhar. ... The Brent oilfield is one of the most productive parts of Scotlands offshore oil assets, although now in steady decline. ... The Brent Spar oil storage buoy Brent Spar or Brent E, was an oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facility had continued in use... The Dunlin oilfieldis situated 195 Km north east of Lerwick, Shetland in block number 211/23a and 211/24a. ... A Tension-leg Platform is a vertically moored floating structure normally used for the production of oil or gas, and is particularly suited for water depths greater tha, 300 metres (about 1000 ft. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... Categories: Companies traded on NYSE | Corporation stubs | Oil companies of the United States | Fortune 500 companies | Companies based in Texas ... The Cormorant oilfield is located 161 Km north east of Lerwick, Shetland in block number 211/26a. ... The Tern Oilfield is situated 169 Km north east of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, in block numbers 210/25a. ... A Shell petrol station sign in the UK The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (called Shell Oil in North America), has its headquarters split between the Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom and The Hague, Netherlands. ... Screenshot Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate character in a series of British childrens comic strips, books and animated films created by John Ryan. ... The Eider Oilfield is situated 184 Km north east of Lerwick, Shetland Islands in block numbers 211/16a & 211/21a. ... For other uses, see Aberdeen (disambiguation). ... The Clair oilfield is the largest discovered but undeveloped hydrocarbon resource on the UK Continental Shelf. ...

Germany

• • Onshore
    • Wietze "near Hanover", discovered in 1859!
    • The Schoenebeek field of the Netherlands extends across the border.
  • One commercial offshore oilfield: Mittelplate approx. 2 Mio m³/a of crude oil production (www.mittelplate.de)

Wietze is a village and a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...

Denmark

• • Nothing onshore
  • Offshore developments abundant. (There is a strange kink in the German-Danish median line that begs for explanation.) Serviced from Esbjerg, most fields are operated by DONG Energy
    • Nils oilfiled
    • Skjold oilfield
    • Gorm oil and gasfield - Chalk reservoir
    • Roar oilfield - Chalk reservoir
    • Harald oilfield - Chalk reservoir
    • Dan oil and gas field - Chalk reservoir
    • Kraka oilfield - Chalk reservoir
    • Halfdan oil and gas field - Chalk reservoir
    • Tyra oil and gas field - Chalk reservoir
    • Tyra Southeast oil field
    • Svend oil field
    • Valdemar oilfield
    • Lulita gas field
    • Regnar oil field
    • Rolf oil field
    • Dagmar oil field
    • Siri oil field
    • Nini oil field
    • Cecilie oil field
    • South Arne oil and gas field

Old watertower in Esbjerg View to Esbjerg harbour from the watertower (May 2005) Map of the future municipality Esbjerg is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ribe County on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. ... DONG Energy is Denmarks leading energy company. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ...

Norway

Reference - Norwegian Petroleum Directorate fact pages on oil fields

• • Onshore developments -none (Oslo Graben oil seeps??).
  • Offshore developments. Serviced from Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansund
  • Central North Sea
    • Hod oilfield - Chalk reservoir , Operated by BP
    • Valhall oilfield - Chalk reservoir, operated by BP
    • Eldfisk - Chalk reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Ekofisk - Chalk reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Embla oilfield - Devonian / Permian Reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Tor oilfield - Chalk reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips
    • Albuskjell oilfield - decommissioned
    • Ula oilfield- Jurassic sandstone reservoir, Operated by BP
    • Gyda oilfield - Jurassic sandstone reservoir, Operated by Talisman Energy
    • Cod oilfield- decommissioned
  • Northern North Sea
    • Sleipner oilfield, Jurassic and Palaeocene reservoirs, operated by Statoil
    • Brisling oilfield
    • Bream oilfield
    • Balder oilfield - Palaeocene/Eocene, operated by ExxonMobil
    • Frigg gas field Large Eocene reservoir gas field,
    • Hild gas field
    • Heimdal gasfield - Palaeocene reservoir, Operated by Norsk Hydro
    • Oseberg oilfield Middle Jurassic sandstone reservoir operated by Norsk Hydro (the only oil rig with a log fire in the accommodation ?? Mad Noggins)
    • Brage oil filed, operated by Norsk Hydro
    • Troll Largest gas field in North Sea operated by Statoil.
    • Gullfaks oil field, Middle Jurassic reservoir operated by Statoil
    • Statfjord along strike from Brent, but structurally deeper, partially in UK sector. Operated by Statoil
    • Snorre oilfield, Middle Jurassic reservoir operated by Statoil
    • Murchison oil field (part of; produced through UK) Operated by CNR resources
    • Agat
  • Haltenbank; numerous developments in production, Heidrun gasfied, Draugen oil field, Ormen Lange etc.

The Oslo Graben was formed during a geologic rifting event in Permian time. ... County Hordaland District Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2004) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 215 465 km² 445 km² 0. ... County Rogaland District Jæren Municipality NO-1103 Administrative centre Stavanger Mayor (2005) Leif Johan Sevland Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 406 71 km² 68 km² 0. ... County Møre og Romsdal Landscape Nordmøre Municipality NO-1503 Administrative centre Kristiansund Mayor (2004) Dagfinn Ripnes (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 426 23 km² 22 km² 0. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... BP plc (LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 ), originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of six vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and petrol (gasoline) supermajors in the world. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... BP plc (LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 ), originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of six vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and petrol (gasoline) supermajors in the world. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an international energy company with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. ... Ekofisk is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an international energy company with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. ... ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an international energy company with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. ... The Chalk Formations of Europe are thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment during the upper Cretaceous Period. ... ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an international energy company with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. ... BP plc (LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 ), originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of six vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and petrol (gasoline) supermajors in the world. ... Talisman Energy TSX: TLM is one of Canadas largest petroleum companies. ... A Statoil petrol station sign in Estonia Statoil (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) is a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. ... Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), headquartered in Irving, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, USA, is the largest publicly traded integrated oil and gas company in the world, formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. ... Norsk Hydro ASA is a Norwegian oil and energy and integrated aluminium company, headquartered in Oslo. ... Norsk Hydro ASA is a Norwegian oil and energy and integrated aluminium company, headquartered in Oslo. ... Norsk Hydro ASA is a Norwegian oil and energy and integrated aluminium company, headquartered in Oslo. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Troll oil field. ... A Statoil petrol station sign in Estonia Statoil (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) is a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. ... Gullfaks is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. ... A Statoil petrol station sign in Estonia Statoil (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) is a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. ... Statfjord is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, operated by Statoil. ... A Statoil petrol station sign in Estonia Statoil (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) is a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. ... A Statoil petrol station sign in Estonia Statoil (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) is a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. ... Agat is a village on the American island of Guam located on the west coast. ... Ormen Lange, the largest natural gas field under development in Norwegian continental shelf, lies 100 km northwest of Kristiansund where seabed depths vary between 800 and 1,100 metres. ...

Associated, but not strictly North Sea

• Ireland (includes Northern Ireland)
  • Onshore
    • Larne; tiny prospect under the basalts.
    • Other small prospects, and significant coal-bed methane.
  • Offshore
    • Kinsale Head; gas development off the coast of Cork
    • Corrib Gas Field; about to start production to a controversial onshore processing plant
    • Inishbeg; prospect announced to the NW of Donegal. Due to be drilled August 2006.
• Faroes
  • Offshore
    • Various blocks licensed for exploration, several discoveries not yet developed.
• Iceland
  • Offshore
    • Nothing published, but the idea is not inconceivable on the ridges extending towards Iceland from the Faroes and the East Greenland Coast.
• East Greenland
  • Onshore
    • No prospects reported, though sediments analogous to the Mesozoic and Caenozoic deposits of the North Sea are known, so there is appreciable interest. Development would be formidably difficult, technically, logistically and politically.
  • Offshore
    • A recent conference on hydrocarbon prospects in arctic Russia (Geological Society, London; February 2006) had several speakers mention major gas prospectivity on the East Greenland coast, but they cited no sources. A conference volume is due towards the end of 2006, which may elaborate.
• Barents Sea
  • Onshore
    • No significant prospects or potential.
  • Offshore
    • Significant exploration, appraisal and development. Major discoveries the Snøhvit gasfield, operated by Statoil in Norwegian sector and the Stokhmanovskoye gasfield planned to be operated by Gazprom in Russian sector.

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See also

• List of oil fields
  • Norwegian oil fields
• Economy of Norway
• UK topics
  • Economy of the United Kingdom
  • Geology of the United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom Climate Change Programme
  • Energy use and conservation in the United Kingdom
• Oil platform
• Proposed oil phase-out in Sweden

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External links

• North Sea oil at the (US) Energy Information Administration
• Shell UK
• - OLF Norwegian Operators association
• -Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain
• United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association
• Danish North Sea oil and gas production, Danish Energy Authority