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The Operational Gas Group wins
the Oil and Gas Authority MER UK
Award at the Oil & Gas UK Awards.
The Operational Gas Group
completes the full suite of
agreements for the Buyers’
Representative Model to import
operational gas from Statoil in the
Norwegian North Sea sector.
The Operational Gas Group delivers
the first flow of imported operational
gas through the northern North Sea
transportation system.
There was an urgent need to secure
sufficient supplies of imported operational
gas to ensure continued production in the
northern North Sea.
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with the Department of Energy & Climate
Change (DECC) and, more recently, the
Oil and Gas Authority.
PILOT’s Infrastructure Access Group,
made up of infrastructure owners,
developers, users and transportation
(pipeline) service providers, alongside
DECC and Oil & Gas UK, was tasked
with maximising value from the
UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) by
identifying critical infrastructure,
ensuring its robust stewardship and testing
‘transformational’ options to improve
access. Thereafter, three rejuvenation
work streams were established focussed
individually on the northern, central and
southern North Sea regions.
In 2013, members of the Northern North
Sea Rejuvenation Work Group participated
in an independent study commissioned
by Oil & Gas UK to gain a collective
understanding of the challenges in this area.
With a special emphasis on the Magnus
and Cormorant hubs – identified as being
“critical” hubs – the study by Dundas
Consultants analysed aggregated data from
those companies operating in the east of
Shetland whose production was delivered to
the Sullom Voe Terminal.
The report highlighted concerns that a
failure to secure reliable operational gas
supplies – at a competitive price – could
have a significant effect on the recoverable
volumes of hydrocarbons that could be
produced. The findings provided the
catalyst for operators to come together
in a new group called the Operational
Gas Group, comprising TAQA, CNR
International, EnQuest, Dana Petroleum,
Fairfield Energy, BP, Shell UK and
ExxonMobil.
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