De Ruyter Oil Field

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Summary Information

• Operator: Dana Petroleum
• Country: Netherlands
• Location: southern part of the Dutch North Sea
• Production start: 2006
• Partners:
• Type: Oil & Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

Description

• The field is located offshore 60 km Northwest of The Hague in water depth of around 35 meters
• The De Ruyter oil and gas field, which has been developed with a single steel Gravity Based Structure ("GBS") platform and is currently producing from three wells. Oil is stored in the GBS and exported via shuttle tanker.
• Gas is exported via the Wintershall operated P12-SW and P6-A platforms before onwards export to shore via the NGT pipeline system.
• The Medway Oil And Gas Fields Development, connects two new fields to the platform

Contractors

• Heerema: Fabrication, installation and hook-up of the 4,300 tonnes integrated production deck (IPD) and the 12,500 tonnes dry weight gravity based substructure
• Boskalis Offshore: The transportation, installation and stabilisation of the platform
• AMEC:
  • FEED
  • Engineering, design and procurement services
• JDR Cable Systems: A 150m riser umbilical to the De Ruyter platform, one 8 KM umbilical linking the De Ruyter platform to Van Nes field and a 5 KM umbilical linking the platform to the Van Ghent field
• FoundOcean: Underbase grouting

History

• 1996 - De Ruyter Oil Field discovered
• 2004 - AMEC awarded
• 2004 - Heerema awarded contract for fabrication, installation and hook-up of platform
• 2006 - First oil production
• 2010 - Dana Petroleum acquires major stake from Petrocanada
• 2013 - Dana starts new exploration programme from the platform

Geology

Links

1. FoundOcean Subsea References
2. De Ruyter Development Area, Boskalis Offshore
3. Petro-Canada will award Contract for De Ruyter Platform to Heerema Zwijndrecht
4. AMEC wins £10 million contract from Petro-Canada
5. Petro-Canada's De Ruyter Development Achieves First Oil
6. Acquisition Of Petro Canada Netherlands B.V.
7. JDR Awarded Two North Sea Umbilical Contracts
8. Well is spudded from the De Ruyter platform

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