BP PLC expects approval in late 2005 from the UK government for decommissioning the Northwest Hutton platform. It submitted its decommission proposal to the government in January 2005 and plans to start offshore work in 2006 or possibly as late as 2009. The platform is about 130 km northeast of the Shetland islands in 140 m of water. The platform is an integrated oil and gas drilling, production processing, and accomodation facility with a design typical of platforms designed in the late 1970s and installed in the early 1980s. Prior to UK government approval, BP will need to obtain an exception to the OSPAR 98/3 decision on its proposal to leave the jacket footings in place. The OSPAR convention regulates platform disposal activities in the European marine environment. Production from Northwest Hutton field, in Block 211/27a of the UK North Sea sector, ceased in Janaury 2003, with the wells abandoned and well conductors cut more than more a year ago. The field's cumulative oil was about 125 million bbl. BP has not manned the platform since July 2004. Interest owners of the platform are: Amoco (UK) Exploration Co., 25.8 % (now BP), CIECO Exploration and Production (UK) Ltd., 25.8 %; Enterprise Oil (UK) Ltd., 28.4 %, and Mobil North Sea Ltd., 20,0 %.


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    Title :

    BP awaits approval to decommission NW Hutton


    Additional title:

    Die Stilllegung der Northwest Hutton Plattform in der Nordsee


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Oil and Gas Journal ; 103 , 23 ; 51-53


    Publication date :

    2005


    Size :

    3 Seiten, 4 Bilder



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English