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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