Tailwind Energy Ltd. started production at the Evelyn oil and gas discovery in UK Central North Sea license P.1792, Block 21/30f, via a subsea tieback to the Triton FPSO.
Tailwind Energy license P.1792 operations in the UK Central North Sea.
Tailwind Energy Ltd. started production at the Evelyn oil and gas discovery in UK Central North Sea license P.1792, Block 21/30f, via a subsea tieback to the Triton FPSO.
The subsea execution phase was led by Dana Petroleum (E&P) Ltd. and TechnipFMC, which tied back the EV-01z horizontal development well (drilled in 2021) to the Triton FPSO about 6 km to the northeast of Evelyn via a subsea production line and umbilical services line. Dana Petroleum is operator of the vessel.
In the same campaign, the project team installed a second subsea production line from Gannet-E field, which already produces via Triton. The flowline was commissioned and brought into production Sept. 11, allowing for increased production from the existing three Gannet E wells and debottlenecking for a fourth well, which is expected to be drilled in this year's fourth quarter and brought into production via the new line in first-quarter 2023.
Evelyn and the Gannet-E expansion projects are expected to add over 10,000 boe/d to Tailwind net production.
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
