Cormorant Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: TAQA
- Country: UK
- Location: North Sea
- Production start:
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- Type: Oil / Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- The field consists of three parts, Cormorant North & South and recently discovered Cormorant East
- Cormorant Alpha is a Concrete Gravity Based Structure (CGBS)
- Cormorant Alpha also receives oil via pipelines from the Brent C, Dunlin Oil Field, North Alwyn and North Cormorant platforms as well as from the Pelican subsea tie-back.
- Prior to 2012, oil from the Murchison Oil Field was also handled here
- North Cormorant is a drilling and production facility for the North Cormorant field. The North Cormorant platform is also a production facility for the Cormorant East field, the Eider Oil Field and the Causeway Oil Field
- Oil is transported via the Brent System Oil Pipeline and gas via the Far North Liquids And Associated Gas System (Flags) Pipeline
Contractors
- Redpath de Groot Caledonian; UIE: Cormorant North Platform
- Emtunga: North Cormorant - Helicopter control module & office complex
- McAlpine/Sea Tank: Cormorant South Platform
- Cleveland Bridge: Construction of Cormorant South Modules
- McDermott: Construction of Cormorant North Modules
- FoundOcean: Cormorant ‘A’
History
- 1972 - Cormorant Oil Field discovered
- 1979 - Government approval given for Cormorant North & South
- 2007 - Shell and Esso decide to dispose of the field along with a number of others
- 2008 - TAQA acquired 100% stake in Cormorant North, South Cormorant from Shell and Esso
- 2009 - TAQA drills new well on the property
- 2012 - TAQA discovers ‘Cormorant East
- 2013 - Leak detected on Cormorant Alpha
Geology
- Middle Jurassic (Brent) sands
Links
- TAQA Environmental Statement 2012
- UK Oil and Gas Fields by Approval Date
- International Protective Coatings Platform References
- List Of Oil Production Platforms In The UK
- FoundOcean Subsea References
- Emtunga Offshore Platform References
- Shell and Esso to market selected North Sea assets
- TAQA Completes Acquisition Of North Sea Assets From Shell And Esso
- TAQA Bratani Announces First New North Sea Oil Well On Stream
- Contender well successful
- TAQA reports incident in UK North Sea
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