Specifications - Buzzard Field North Sea Central, United Kingdom
| Key Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | Buzzard |
| Location | North Sea |
| Operator | Nexen |
| Location | Outer Moray Firth, central North Sea |
| Distance from Land | 100km northeast of Aberdeen |
| Licences | P.986 (Blocks 19/10 and 20/6) and P.928(S) (Blocks 19/5a and 20/1S) |
| Water Depth | 100m |
| Equity | Nexen (43.21254%), PetroCanada (29.89122%), BG (21.73307%) and Edinburgh (5.16317%) |
| Discovery | June 2001 |
| Rig | Semi-submersible Ocean Nomad |
| Test | 6,547bpd and 1MMcf/d of gas |
| Gross Oil Column | 750ft |
| Age | Upper Jurassic |
| Gravity | 32° API |
| Sulphur | 1.4% |
| Production | Three bridge-linked platforms: wellhead facilities (W), production facilities (P) and living quarters and utilities (UQ) |
| Wellhead Fabricators | Burntisland Fabrications |
| Wellhead Weight | 3,650t |
| Utilities Deck Fabricators | Heerema |
| Utilities Deck Weight | 9,500t |
| Production Deck Fabricators | Dragados |
| Production Deck Weight | 10,000t |
| Wells | 27 production wells (eight pre-drilled) |
| Start-Up | December 2006 (delayed by bad weather) |
| Drilling | Skid mounted jack-up rig adjacent to the wellhead platform |
| Plateau Production | 180,000bpd to 190,000bpd by mid-2007 |
| Water injection wells | 16 |
| Export Oil Pipeline | Forties Pipeline System to Cruden Bay |
| Export Gas Pipeline | Frigg system to St Fergus Gas Terminal |
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