Difference between revisions of "Clipper Gas Field"

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The Clipper complex is the main installation for the Sole Pit fields. Situated 72 kilometres north east of the East Anglian coast in the Southern North Sea.
The Clipper is made up of five bridge-linked platforms – the wellhead platform, a production platform, a compression platform, a Riser Platform and a metering platform.
First operational in 1990, the installation produces and processes gas from the wells on wellhead platform and gas is also imported from the satellite platforms, producing from the **Barque** (049/16), **Cutter**, **Carrack Gas Field** ** Galleon** and **Skiff** (048/20a) fields.
The Barque field consists of 2 unmanned platforms, PL & PB
The Galleon field consists of 2 unmanned platforms, PN & PG
Cutter & Carrack have one platform each, Cutter QC and Carrack QA
The Skiff field consist of a minimum facilities, Skiff PS, normally unmanned installation (NUI), connected via a pipeline to the Clipper platform which provides processing and export facility for the Skiff fluids of gas, condensate and water
Gas is exported through a 24 inch diameter subsea pipeline to the Bacton Gas Plant in Norfolk.

Sembmarine SLP:
- Clipper PR Platform - EPIC lump sum contracted project including topsides, jacket and bridges, offshore hook-up and commissioning
- Carrack QA Platform: EPC contracted project including topside, jacket and piles, offshore hook-up and commissioning
Rosetti Marino: Engineering, procurement, fabrication, testing, onshore commissioning, load-out and sea fastening of the Clipper Accommodation Module with integral Utility Deck and Helideck, the link bridge, the jacket and piles.
Stolt Offshore: Skiff subsea installation
Saipem: Pipeline T & I
FoundOcean:
- Barque PL Scour Rectification
- Grouting for Skiff
Nessco: Communication systems
Icon Engineering: Skiff Platform Installation

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 * Operator: Shell
 * Country: UK
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+=== Description ===
 * The Clipper complex is the main installation for the Sole Pit fields. Situated 72 kilometres north east of the East Anglian coast in the Southern North Sea.
 * The Clipper is made up of five bridge-linked platforms – the wellhead platform, a production platform, a compression platform, a Riser Platform and a metering platform.
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 * '''Sembmarine SLP:'''
 ** Clipper PR Platform - EPIC lump sum contracted project including topsides, jacket and bridges, offshore hook-up and commissioning
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 * '''Icon Engineering:''' Skiff Platform Installation
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+=== History ===
 * 1988 - Government approval for Clipper & Barque
 * 1990 - Barque PL Platform installed
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 * 2006 - Cutter QC Platform installed
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+=== Links ===
 # [https://www.og.decc.gov.uk/web_files/ems/2012/Shell-ems.pdf Shell, EMS, 2011]
 # [http://sembmarineslp.com/case-studies/carrack/ Sembmarine SLP, Carrick]