Beauly and Burghley Oil Fields

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Repsol
  • Country: UK
  • Location: Central North Sea
  • Production start: 2010
  • Partners: Idemitsu - 41.10%, ENI - 21.92%
  • Type: Oil / Gas
  • Estimated Reserves:
  • Production Volume:

Description

  • Beauly and Burghley are both single well subsea tiebacks. Both fields tie-back to the Balmoral Floating Production Vessel (FPV).
  • Beauly is located in Block 16/21c of the Central North Sea approximately 185km from the Scottish coastline, and in 143m water depth.
    • The Beauly Field development comprises of a single subsea horizontal production well, tied back to the existing Balmoral FPV (in Block 16/21) approximately 5 km to the north-west, via a single 6” production pipeline, a piggybacked 2” gas lift pipeline and a control and chemical injection umbilical.
  • Burghley is located in Block 16/22 of the Central North Sea and is also a single well tied back to the Balmoral FPV.
    • The Burghley well is tied back via a 10” production pipeline with a piggy-backed 4” gas lift pipeline and an electro-hydraulic control umbilical.


Contractors

Burghley

  • Technip:** Fabrication and installation of a production pipeline and a gas lift pipeline, as well as the installation of an umbilical and subsea structures.
  • Universalpegasus: Initial conceptual design and subsequent FEED for the Burghley subsea facilities
  • Penspen: Burghley Tie-back FEED
  • KWsubsea: Development – Hydrotest

Beauly

  • Penspen: Beauly and Balmoral Header Detailed Design
  • J P Kenny: single gas lifted production well tieback

History

  • 1998 - Beauly field was discovered
  • 2000 - Beauly Project development approved by UK Goverment
  • 2001 - First oil from Beauly
  • 2005 - The Burghley field was discovered
  • 2009 - Burghley Project development approved by UK Goverment
  • 2010 - Burghley Oil Field came on stream
  • 2015 - Repsol became a partner by acquiring Talisman Sinopec

Geology

Links

  1. Universalpegasus Subsea References
  2. Penspen Offshore And Platform References
  3. J P Kenny Subsea References
  4. KWsubsea Upheaval Buckling And Out Of Straightness Analysis
  5. Technip awarded two contracts for field developments in UK North Sea
  6. Commencement of Production at British North Sea Burghley Oil Field
  7. Repsol reaches an agreement with Talisman Energy to acquire the Canadian oil company