By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 7 -- The Mittelplate consortium participants—operator RWE Dea AG, Hamburg, and Wintershall AG, Kassel—report that the new stainless-steel Mittelplate pipeline is delivering 2,700 tonnes/day of crude oil from Mittelplate oil field in the German North Sea to a processing plant at Friedrichskoog.
The pipeline began operations last fall.
The field, developed in tidal waters with an artificial drilling and production island, is thought to hold reserves of more than 60 million tonnes (OGJ Online, Nov. 18, 2002).
The pipeline facilitates increased production and delivery by about 110,000 tonnes/year of crude by enabling the field to produce year-round. It eliminated the need for 2,000 barge journeys/year across the Wattenmeer tidal flats.