Broom Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: EnQuest
- Country: UK
- Location: 320 kilometres North-East of Aberdeen
- Production start: 2004
- Partners:
- Type: Oil / Gas
- Estimated Reserves: Oil reserves are estimated to be 36 million barrels
- Production Volume:
Description
- The field was developed as a sub sea tie-back to the Heather platform, which is situated 7km to the east of Broom
- The field was previously known as West Heather & North Terrace
- The West heather structure was developed with three production wells and two water injection wells
- The North Terrace structure was developed with two production wells and one water injection well.
Contractors
- GlobalSanatFe: Drilling and well testing
- Kvaerner Oilfield Products: supply and install a fully integrated system of subsea Christmas trees and control systems
- Technip: design, fabrication and installation of a pipe-in-pipe production flowline(1) which will be trenched and backfilled. The work also includes a subsea structure, spoolpiece(2) tie-ins, repositioning of a flexible riser(3) and rockdumping for upheaval buckling
History
- 2002 - Positive test drilling completed
- 2002 - Challenger Minerals & Palace Exploration Company farm in to the field
- 2003 - DNO announce that the West Heather and North Terrace oil accumulations, are to be defined as a single Field
- 2003 - Application made to Department of Trade and Industry
- 2003 - Kvaerner Oilfield Products won a contract to supply and install a fully integrated system of subsea Christmas trees and control systems
- 2003 - Lundin acquired the field from DNO
- 2004 - First oil production
- 2005 - Phase 2 Development Successfully Completed
- 2010 - Technip awarded augmentation pipeline contract
- 2010 - Enquest becomes owner following demerger from Lundin
- 2013 - MOL acquires a stake from Wintershall
Geology
- The lower part of the reservoir section of the field is in the Broom Formation of the Middle Jurassic Brent Group
Links
- New positive drilling results from West Heather
- DNO ASA Successful oil test on West Heather
- Farm-In Agreement on Heather Satellites
- Determination of the Broom Field
- Public notice: Broom Field Development Environmental Assessment
- Lundin Petroleum to Acquire Certain Assets of DNO in UK, Norway and Ireland
- Another multi-million dollar contract for Kvaerner Oilfield Products
- Lundin Petroleum: First Oil from the Broom Field, offshore UK
- Uk - Broom Field Phase 2 Development Successfully Completed
- Technip awarded augmentation pipeline contract at the broom field in UK North Sea
- Lundin announces intention to spin-off its UK business
- Enhancement of the exploration & production portfolio through North Sea acquisition
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