Farragon Oil Field

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Summary Information

• Operator: BP
• Country: UK
• Location: 140 miles North-east of Aberdeen
• Production start: 2005
• Partners: BP (operator) 50%, Eni (30%) and Nexen Petroleum U.K. Ltd (20%)
• Type: Oil
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

Description

• The Farragon field is located 140 miles North-east of Aberdeen in Block 16/28, in the Central North Sea
• It is 14km from BP’s Andrew platform. It is tied to the existing Cyrus subsea development by a sixinch, 7km pipeline, and shares the pre-existing 10-inch Cyrus production pipeline to the Andrew platform for processing and export onwards to the Forties Pipeline System

Contractors

• Subsea 7: Subsea tie-back to the Andrew Platform and includes production, gas lift and methanol pipelines utilising a pipeline bundle

History

• 2003 - Farragon Oil Field discovered
• 2004 - Project development approved by UK Government
• 2005 - First oil

Geology

Links

1. Farragon, BP
2. BP Farragon Award for Subsea 7
3. BP Announces First Oil from Farragon

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