WIRELINE Issue 35 Spring 2016

OPERATIONAL GAS

CO-OPERATION

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.

There was an urgent need to secure sufficient supplies of imported operational gas to ensure continued production in the northern North Sea. ” “

2015 November

2016 January

2015 December

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’

The Operational Gas Group delivers the first flow of imported operational gas through the northern North Sea transportation system.

Representative Model to import operational gas from Statoil in the Norwegian North Sea sector.

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