Offshore staff
LONDON — Production has started from the Neptune Energy-developed Seagull oil and gas field in the UK North Sea via a subsea tieback to the bp-operated central processing facility (CPF) at the Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) complex in the UK central North Sea.
Seagull, a four-well development 10 miles south of the CPF, is the first tieback to the ETAP hub in 20 years, bp said. Its production heads through a new 3-mile subsea pipeline that connects to an existing pipeline system, with a new 10-mile umbilical linking the CPF to Seagull, providing control, power and communications services.
Oil from Seagull, following processing at ETAP, is exported through the Forties Pipeline System to Grangemouth in central Scotland while the gas is sent to Teesside in northeast England via the Central Area Transmission System pipeline.
At peak the field should produce about 50,000 boe/d.
bp and JAPEX are the other partners.
Welligence Energy Analytics provided its UK development analysis stating on its LinkedIn, "With bp’s Murlach redevelopment, approved in September, and the potential tieback of Petrogas E&P’s Birgitta project, Seagull is one of multiple projects that will contribute to keeping ETAP online into the 2030s.With the project moving into the production phase, operatorship has passed from Neptune Energy (soon to be Eni) to bp. This is the latest in several JV [joint venture] changes, with acquisitions by Apache Corporation, bp, Neptune Energy and Japex since license award to Talisman Energy in 2009."
