Project Profile
Value: US$809 million
Location: Northern end of Shetland Islands
Area covers: 1,000 acres (4 sq km)
Start-up Year: 1981
The Sullom Voe Terminal is located at the northern end of the largest of the Shetland Islands. It is also one of the largest oil and liquefied gas terminals in Europe. The terminal was built between 1975 and 1981 and covers 1,000 acres. Its main purpose is to act as a buffer between the producing fields offshore and tankers waiting to ship oil to refineries worldwide. The terminal has been designed to allow continuous production offshore, even in bad weather.
The Sullom Voe Terminal is operated by BP and handles production from more than two-dozen oilfields in the east Shetland Basin, between Shetland and Norway. Approximately 20 different companies have interests in the terminal, which receives production through the Brent and Ninian pipeline systems. Oil from BP\'s West of Shetland Schiehallion field, has been brought to Sullom Voe since August 1998 by shuttle tanker. At peak production an average of 142,000 bpd will be imported using a purpose built, double hulled shuttle tanker Loch Rannoch. Dedicated storage and pumping facilities were upgraded during 1997.
Operator:
BP: 97% interest
EnQuest: 3% interest
Contractors:
Jacobs Engineering Group: Providing project management, engineering and construction for extensive fabric maintenance works
Subsea 7: Development of oil and gas pipelines
Cofely (an Engie company): Contract by BP to supply utilities to the Sullom Voe Terminal (SVT) on the Shetland Islands leasing the SVT power station and delivering a programme of major maintenance and investment works on the existing energy plant
Bilfinger: Framework agreement with BP, valued at US153.3 million for further three years. The contract covers maintenance services at two of its largest midstream oil and gas terminals in Scotland – Forties Pipeline System (FPS), Grangemouth and Sullom Voe Terminal (SVT), Shetland. The agreement covers scaffolding, insulation, corrosion protection and fire-proofing. (December 2015)
Turner & Townsend: Contract to deliver quantity surveying and cost management services (November, 2016)