Marnock Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: BP
- Country: UK
- Location: 150 miles east of Aberdeen
- Production start: 1998
- Partners:
- Type: Oil
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- The field is the centre of the Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP)
- It comprises two small steel platforms, one housing processing facilities and the other utilities and accommodation.
- The CPF comprises two bridge-linked steel jackets and topsides which separate the living quarters, utilities and control rooms from the wells, risers, processing and compression facilities and the export hub for produced oil and gas.
- The other fields in the ETAP development are all subsea tiebacks. These fields are;
- Oil export is through the Forties Pipeline System while gas export is through the Cats Central Area Transmission System Gas Pipeline.
Contractors
- Brown and Root: design and Project Management
- AMEC, Trafalgar House, Consafe and Belleli: Fabrication
- BiFab:
- Pre-Drilling Templates
- Waterflood - Subsea Manifolds & Protection Covers
- EMC/Coflexip Stena: Pipelay
- Coflexip Stena: Subsea Installation
- Heeremac: Transportation and Installation
History
- 1995 - Contracts awarded for the ETAP development
- 1996 - Department of Trade and Industry approved the development
- 1998 - First production
Geology
Links
- BiFab Subsea References
- BP Awards Contracts to Begin Early Work on Central North Sea Fields
- £1.6 Billion Central North Sea Oil Development Gets Under Way
- ETAP 'Example of Major Benefits from North Sea Investment' - ETAP Fields Start Production
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