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    North Sea Jacky, Anglia platforms to be removed this summer

    June 2, 2021
    Ithaca Energy expects remaining decommissioning activities at the Jacky field in the UK central North Sea to be completed this summer.
    (Courtesy Ithaca Energy)
    The Anglia-A platform in the UK southern North Sea.
    The Anglia-A platform in the UK southern North Sea.

    Offshore staff

    ABERDEEN, UK – Ithaca Energy expects remaining decommissioning activities at the Jacky field in the UK central North Sea to be completed this summer.

    Jacky field, which ceased production in 2014, is in the Inner Moray Firth area (block 12/21c). Preparations are under way for removal and recycling of the suction-piled, monopole unmanned platform.

    Ithaca also has regulatory approval for decommissioning of the Anglia field in blocks 48/19b and 48/18b in the UK southern North Sea. Facilities to be removed during 3Q comprise a normally unmanned platform and various platform and subsea wells.

    At the same time, work continues on the Captain enhanced oil recovery (EOR) program. The Stage II development, approved by Britain’s Oil and Gas Authority in March, involves drilling up to four further producers and six injectors to optimize oil recovery from the area of the Upper Captain Sands reservoir produced via subsea wells.

    Contracts should be issued shortly for this work; the installation of around 6 km (4 mi) of subsea pipelines and umbilicals to the two subsea areas of the field in order to provide polymer injection capacity; and the placement of additional polymer storage tanks and pumps on the Captain platform and FPSO.

    06/02/2021