It plans a single subsea well tied back to infrastructure serving the TotalEnergies-operated Greater Laggan Area transportation system via a new 16-km subsea pipeline.
Shell expects production to start in the mid-2020s and peak at about 150 MMcf/d, with most of the recoverable gas likely extracted by the end of the decade.
Victory’s gas will head to the Shetland Gas Plant for processing before continuing through offshore pipelines in the North Sea to the National Grid entry point at St Fergus, close to Aberdeen. Here, the company also is working on the Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage project.