Statfjord oil field
Statfjord | |
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Location of Statfjord | |
Country | Norway, Scotland |
Region | North Sea |
Offshore/onshore | Offshore |
Coordinates | 61°15′20″N 1°51′14″E / 61.25556°N 1.85389°E |
Operator | Equinor |
Field history | |
Start of production | 1979 |
Peak of production | January 16, 1987 |
Abandonment | 2032 |
Production | |
Current production of oil | 70,000 barrels per day (~3.5×10 6 t/a) |
Current production of gas | none |
The Statfjord oil field is a large oil and gas field covering 580 km2 in the U.K.-Norwegian boundary of the North Sea at a water depth of 145 m, discovered in 1974 by Mobil and since 1987 operated by Equinor.[1]
It is a trans-median field crossing the Norwegian and UK North Sea Boundary with approximately 15% being in the UK Continental Shelf waters. At peak production it produced over 700,000 barrels (110,000 m3) of oil per day. Oil is loaded offshore and taken directly to refineries; gas is transported via the Statpipe pipeline to mainland Norway.
Geology
The field is located in the northern part of the
A Conoco 211/24-1 well drilled in 1972-1973 on the U.K. side of the structure turned out to be downdip to the
Production
The Statfjord field has three condeep concrete production platforms, A, B[6] and C[7] Each platform is made up of approximately 250,000 tonnes of concrete with 40,000 tonnes of top-side processing and accommodation facilities.
Statfjord holds the record for the highest daily production ever recorded for a European oil field (outside Russia) : 850,204 barrels (135,171.6 m3) (
Statfjord holds one more record - the biggest single contract in Norwegian history for construction of Statfjord B platform [9]
Statoil has planned the "late life" of the field and expects to ultimately recover 68% of
Statfjord oil spill
In December 2007, thousands of tonnes of oil were spilled into the North Sea during the loading of a tanker at the Statfjord oil field. The spill, estimated at 21,750 barrels (approx 3,000 metric tons), was the country's second largest ever, according to Norway's oil safety authority. The accident happened in rough weather while the tanker Navion Britannica was loading oil from a storage buoy, according to the operator Equinor.[11]
See also
References
- ISBN 0891813063, pp. 95 and 100.
- ISBN 0891813063, pp. 96-98.
- ISBN 0891813063, pp. 99-109.
- ISBN 0891813063, p. 109.
- ^ ISBN 0891813063, p. 100.
- ^ "The Statfjord B platform". 13 November 2019.
- ^ "The Statfjord C platform". 9 July 2018.
- ^ "The Statfjord area". Archived from the original on 2016-10-29.
- ^ MELAND, TRUDE (23 May 2018). "The biggest single contract in Norwegian history". Norwegian Petroleum Museum.
- ^ "Statfjord late life".
- ^ "Oil spill in North Sea off Norway". BBC News. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2010.