Total starts up natural gas field offshore Scotland

April 24, 2012

Total SA has started production from Islay natural gas field straddling the UK-Norwegian sector line in the North Sea 440 km northeast of Aberdeen (OGJ Online, July 15, 2010).

Bob Tippee

Total SA has started production from Islay natural gas field straddling the UK-Norwegian sector line in the North Sea 440 km northeast of Aberdeen (OGJ Online, July 15, 2010).

Production from a single well, completed subsea in 120 m of water and tied back to the Alwyn North platform, has reached 15,000 boe/d. Total estimates reserves at 17 million boe of gas and condensate.

Discovered in 2008, the field lies mostly on Block 3/15 of the UK sector and partly on Blocks 29/6a and 29/6c of the Norwegian sector. Total holds 100% interest in Islay and the Alwyn production hub (OGJ Online, Nov. 6, 2006).

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Bob Tippee | Editor

Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.