Clipper Gas Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Shell
- Country: UK
- Location: Block 048/19a, Southern North Sea
- Production start: 1990
- Partners:
- Type: Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- The Clipper complex is the main installation for the Sole Pit fields. Situated 72 kilometres north east of the East Anglian coast in the Southern North Sea.
- The Clipper is made up of five bridge-linked platforms – the wellhead platform, a production platform, a compression platform, a Riser Platform and a metering platform.
- First operational in 1990, the installation produces and processes gas from the wells on wellhead platform and gas is also imported from the satellite platforms, producing from the Barque (049/16), Cutter, Carrack Gas Field Galleon and Skiff (048/20a) fields.
- The Barque field consists of 2 unmanned platforms, PL & PB
- The Galleon field consists of 2 unmanned platforms, PN & PG
- Cutter & Carrack have one platform each, Cutter QC and Carrack QA
- The Skiff field consist of a minimum facilities, Skiff PS, normally unmanned installation (NUI), connected via a pipeline to the Clipper platform which provides processing and export facility for the Skiff fluids of gas, condensate and water
- Gas is exported through a 24 inch diameter subsea pipeline to the Bacton Gas Plant in Norfolk.
Contractors
- Sembmarine SLP:
- Clipper PR Platform - EPIC lump sum contracted project including topsides, jacket and bridges, offshore hook-up and commissioning
- Carrack QA Platform: EPC contracted project including topside, jacket and piles, offshore hook-up and commissioning
- Rosetti Marino: Engineering, procurement, fabrication, testing, onshore commissioning, load-out and sea fastening of the Clipper Accommodation Module with integral Utility Deck and Helideck, the link bridge, the jacket and piles.
- Stolt Offshore: Skiff subsea installation
- Saipem: Pipeline T & I
- FoundOcean:
- Barque PL Scour Rectification
- Grouting for Skiff
- Nessco: Communication systems
History
- 1988 - Government approval for Clipper & Barque
- 1990 - Barque PL Platform installed
- 1990 - Clipper Gas Field came onstream
- 1993 - Barque South approved
- 1994 - First gas from Galleon
- 1995 - Barque PB Platform installed
- 2000 - Skiff development approved
- 2005 - Cutter development approved
- 2006 - Cutter QC Platform installed
Geology
Links
- Shell, EMS, 2011
- Sembmarine SLP, Carrick
- UK Oil and Gas Fields by Approval Date
- List Of Oil Production Platforms In The UK
- List Of Oil and Gas Production Platforms In The UK
- FoundOcean Subsea References
- Rosetti Marino Platform References
- Nessco Platform References
- Serimax Pipeline References
- Saipem Pipeline References
- Licence P 8 - Licence Having Effect Under The Petroleum Act 1998 The Skiff Field
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