Project Profile
Location: Block 48/7c in the UK sector of the North Sea
Value: Undisclosed
Production Start-up Year: 2012
The Seven Seas gas field is located on Block 48/7c in the UK sector of the North Sea.
Discovered in June 2007, the 48/07c-13y well was completed as a production well on July 20, 2010.
On March 26, 2009, the Department of Energy and Climate Change approved the Seven Seas development. The development will initially compromise the subsea tie-back of production well 48/72-13y to the existing West Sole Alpha platform in the southern North Sea. once processed, the hydrocarbons will be sent to the Dimlington Terminal via the existing 16-inch WSA export line.
In June 2008, Subsea 7 received an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract valued at about US$70 million for the Seven Seas development. The EPIC contract was for a tieback of a production well to the West Sole Alpha platform via 6-inch carbon steel production pipeline and integrated service and control umbilicals. Offshore operations took place during 2Q and 3Q 2009.
The Seven Seas gas field came online in October 2012. Gas from the field, 60km off the East Yorkshire coast, flows via Perenco’s West Sole Alpha platform before being processed onshore at the company’s Dimlington Terminal at Easington. Planning has started on a second well at the field.
Operator:
Centrica: 90% interest
RockRose Energy: 10% interest
Contractors:
CSL: EPC contract
Seafox Contractors B.V.: Accommodation and service contract
Subsea 7: EPIC contract