Update on UKCS Field Development Projects - Intsok

Field Falcon/Tern North
Area Northern North Sea
Operator Taqa
Development concept Subsea
Transport concept Pipeline(s) to Tern
Start-up 2011/12
Comments: Taqa plans to develop Falcon and Tern North as subsea tiebacks to the Tern
platform which it operates. First, however, it has to prove they contain hydrocarbons – this will
be done by semisub Stena Spey which started a four-well programme in early Apr with an
appraisal well on Tern North. Start-up could take place in 2011 or 2012. Combined reserves
are estimated at 5-25m bbl.
Field Forties
Area Central North Sea
Operator Apache
Development concept 2 wellhead platforms
Transport concept --
Start-up 2011
Comments: Apache plans the further development of the Forties field with the installation of
two satellite wellhead platforms. Each 18-slot platform will have a 2,000t topsides, 4,600t
jacket and 3,700t of piles. An EPCI tender for the first was issued in Dec. A FEED contract has
now been awarded to SLP North Sea, part of the SLP group which is not in administration;
assuming the project is sanctioned, this will lead into fabrication, which will take place at SLP’s
Tyneside yard. The platform, which is due to be installed in 2011, will be bridge-linked to
Forties Delta and the second to Forties Alpha. Drilling is likely to be carried out by a jackup as
the water depth is just over 100 metres.
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