Amoco (U.K.) Exploration Co. and partners plan to invest 160 million ($240 million) during the next 2 years to boost gas production from Indefatigable field and develop several nearby fields in the North Sea's southern gas basin.
Amoco plans a 37 million ($55 million) revamp of Indefatigable's central compression platform on Block 49/18. This will involve reconfiguring gas compression facilities to allow export of ia,et as.
The project will reduce the rate of decline in production volumes, said Amoco, and extend field life. Work is to be complete in 1995,
Indefatigable has been on production since 1971 from original reserves of 5.2 tcf.
Development of four gas fields near Indefatigable will involve, among others, Baird field. Discovered this year on U.K. Block 49/23, it holds reserves estimated at 75 bcf.
Amoco is in discussion with the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry to place Baird on stream later this year as a single well tied back to Indefatigable facilities.
In addition, Davy field on Blocks 49/30a and 53/5a is being considered for development using an unmanned monotower production platform tied back to Indefatigable.
Development plans for Bessemer and Beaufort fields on Block 49/23 are less concrete. Subsea and platform tiebacks to Indefatigable are being considered.
Impetus for the investment program came from the signing of a new gas sales contract with British Gas plc for supplies from the Indefatigable area.
Indefatigable interests are operator Amoco 30.77%, Amerada Hess Ltd. 23.08%, British Gas 30.77%, and Enterprise Oil plc 15.38%.
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