F16 Gas Fields

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Summary Information

• Operator: Wintershall
• Country: Netherlands
• Location: North Sea
• Production start: 2006
• Partners:
• Type: Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

Description

• Wintershall’s largest North Sea production platform, the F16-A, started production in early 2005. The 27-metre-high natural gas platform is seven stories high and weighs 3600 tonnes.
• The gas produced is first air-cooled and then dried in plants on board the platform. It is then transported via the Noordgastransport NGT Gas Pipeline to Oude Statenzijl in the Province of Groningen
• Gas from E18A Gas Fields is also treated on the F16-A Platform

Contractors

• Subsea 7: Installation of spoolpieces and the associated works

History

• 2005 - F16-A platform Installed
• 2006 - First gas produced

Geology

Links

1. Platforms Netherlands Continental Shelf
2. Third Dutch Sector award for Subsea 7

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