Wytch Farm Oil Field

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Summary Information

• Operator: Perenco
• Country: UK
• Location: Dorset
• Production start: 1979
• Partners: Perenco (Operator) 67.81 per cent, Premier 12.38 per cent, Maersk 7.43 per cent, Summit Petroleum Dorset Ltd 7.43 per cent, Talisman 4.95 per cent
• Type: Oil
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume: 17,000 boed

Description

• Wytch Farm is Europe's largest known onshore oilfield
• It is a conventional oilfield extracting oil (with some associated gas) from sandstone and limestone oil reservoirs
• There are sixty-four production wells and 31 water injection wells currently in operation.
• Oil is exported from the field via pipeline directly to the BP-operated Hamble terminal

Contractors

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History

• 1973 - Wytch Farm Oil Field discovered
• 1979 - First Oil Produced
• 1995 - Wytch Farm Field Wins Queen's Environmental Award
• 2011 - BP Agrees Sale of Wytch Farm to Perenco
• 2013 - Permission granted for redevelopment
• 2014 - Ithaca Energy Acquired a 7.43% stake

Geology

• The field comprises two main reservoirs - the Bridport, a Jurassic sandstone at 924 metres below surface, and the Sherwood, a Triassic sandstone at a depth of 1585 metres.

Links

1. BP Wytch Farm Field Wins Queen's Environmental Award
2. BP Agrees Sale of Wytch Farm to Perenco UK Limited
3. Wytch Farm : Drilling vertically and horizontally
4. Approval of 39 planning applications for Wytch Farm
5. Producing Assets Acquisition

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