Kingfisher Oil and Gas Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Shell
- Country: UK
- Location: North Sea
- Production start: 1997
- Partners:
- Type: Oil & Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- The Kingfisher field lies in Block 16/8 of the UK Sector of the North Sea and comprises three reservoirs: Brae I (Gas/Condensate), Brae II (Volatile Oil) and Heather (Gas/Condensate).
- The Kingfisher field is located 280km Northeast of Aberdeen and was developed as a subsea tie-back to the Brae Bravo platform.
- The Kingfisher development comprises six subsea wells with rigid pipeline jumpers to a subsea manifold.
- Oil is exported via the Brae - Forties pipeline to the Forties Pipeline System
- Gas is transported to the SAGE St Fergus Gas Processing Terminal via the Scottish Area Gas Evacuation (SAGE) Pipeline
Contractors
- BiFab: Fabrication of Manifold, SSIV, Topsides and Subsea Spools
History
- 1996 - Approval granted for development
- 1997 - Production started
- 2021 - Approval granted for decommissioning
