List of oil and gas fields of the North Sea
This list of oil and gas fields of the North Sea contains links to oil and natural gas reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In terms of the oil industry, North Sea oil often refers to a larger geographical set, including areas such as the Norwegian Sea and the UK "Atlantic Margin" (west of Shetland) not, strictly speaking, part of the North Sea.
List of fields
South to north.
Netherlands
- Onshore
- Rijswijk oil field - An Oilfield with a Lower Cretaceous reservoir
- Schoonebeek - largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe
- Groningen gas field - huge gas discovery
- Offshore (serviced from The Hague)
- Zuidwal
- Ameland - (whether this will be developed onshore or offshore is an open question)
- De Ruyter oil field - Most recent offshore oil development (2006)
- Hanze oil field - Most northern oil field in Dutch sector (2001)
- Many fields in Quadrantrs P, Q, K, L, some in blocks E, F
United Kingdom
References DTI Brown book and DECC website
- Onshore
- Offshore (Southern North Sea) (serviced from Easington, Lowestoft, Hartlepool, Yarmouth and near Skegness)
- Offshore Irish Sea (serviced from Liverpool, Blackpool and Morecambe)
- Offshore (Central North Sea) (serviced from Aberdeen and Hartlepool)
- Argyll & Duncan Oilfields - Rotliegend / Zechstein
- Auk oilfield - Rotliegend / Zechstein, Operated by Talisman Energy
- Clyde oilfield - Fulmar sandstone operated by Talisman Energy
- Fulmar oilfield - Fulmar sandstone, Operated by Talisman Energy
- J-Block gasfield - Triassic, Chalk and Palaeocene, operated by ConocoPhillips
- Elgin-Franklin gasfield - Fulmar sandtone and Middle Jurassic, operated by Total S.A.
- Shearwater gas/condensate field - Jurassic Fulmar sandstone - operated by Shell U.K. Limited
- Erskine gasfield -Middle Jurassic sandstone - operated by Chevron
- Gannet oilfield (A, B, C, D, E, F and G) - Eocene, Palaeocene and Jurassic - operated by Shell U.K. Limited
- Scoter gas/condensate field - operated by Shell U.K. Limited
- Merganser gas/condensate field - operated by Shell U.K. Limited
- Pierce oilfield - Palaeocene - operated by Shell U.K. Limited
- ETAP gas field complex includes Marnock, Machar, Monan, Mungo, Madoes and Mirren fields, Operated by BP
- Heron Cluster oil fields - Triassic Skagerrak Formation - includes Heron, Egret and Skua - operated by Shell U.K. Limited
- Arbroath oilfield - Plaeocene, Forties Sandstone, operated by Talisman Energy
- Blane oil field - Paleocene, Forties Sandstone, operated by Talisman Energy
- Montrose oilfield - Paleocene, Forties Sandstone, operated by Talisman Energy
- Lomond gasfield - Palaeocene, Forties Sandstone operated by BG Group
- Everest gasfield - Palaeocene, Forties Sandstone operated by BG Group
- Armada gasfields - Palaeocene and Jurassic Fulmar, operated by BG Group
- Kittiwake oilfield - Operated by Petrofac
- Nelson oilfield - Palaeocene, Forties Sandstone, Operated by Shell Oil
- Forties oilfield - Palaeocene, Forties Sandstone operated by Apache Corp.
- Britannia gasfield - Lower Cretaceous, Operated by ConocoPhillips and Chevron
- Alba oilfield - Eocene operated by Chevron
- Buchan oil field - Devonian Sandstone - Operated by Talisman Energy
- Ettrick oilfield - Upper Jurassic
- Buzzard oilfield - Upper Jurassic operated by Nexen, largest discovery in last 25 years
- Andrew oilfield - Palaeocene, operated by BP
- Moira oilfield - Palaeocene
- Maureen oilfield - Palaeocene (abandoned, platform removed) was operated by Phillips Petroleum)
- Cyrus oilfield - Palaeocene
- Balmoral oilfield - Palaeocene
- Gryphon oilfield- Eocene Operated by Maersk Oil
- Harding oilfield - Eocene Operated by BP
- Tiffany oilfield - Upper Jurassic
- Toni oilfield - Upper Jurassic (subsea tie back to Tiffany)
- Thelma oilfield - Upper Jurassic (subsea tie back to Tiffany)
- Sycamore oilfield - Upper Jurassic (subsea tie back to Tiffany and Brae)
- Brae oilfield Upper Jurassic (several satellite accumulations) operated by Marathon Oil
- Miller oilfield - Operated by BP
- Offshore (Moray Firth) (Serviced from Aberdeen)
- Offshore (Northern North Sea) (serviced from Aberdeen)
- Offshore (West of Shetland) (Serviced from Aberdeen)
Germany
- Onshore
- Wietze "near Hanover", discovered in 1859.
- The Schoenebeek field of the Netherlands extends across the border.
- Offshore
- Mittelplate, approx. 2 Mio m³/a of crude oil production
- A6/B4, gas field 300 km in the North Sea, gas transport via the NOGAT pipeline
Denmark
Norway
Reference - Norwegian Petroleum Directorate fact pages on oil fields
- Onshore developments -none (Oslo Graben oil seeps??).
- Offshore developments. Serviced from Stavanger, Bergen, Kristiansund
- Central North Sea
- Hod oilfield - Chalk reservoir , operated by BP
- Valhall oilfield - Chalk reservoir, operated by BP
- Eldfisk - Chalk reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips
- Ekofisk - Chalk reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips
- Embla oilfield - Devonian / Permian Reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips
- Tor oilfield - Chalk reservoir, operated by ConocoPhillips
- Albuskjell oilfield - decommissioned
- Tambar oil field- Upper Jurassic sandstone reservoir, operated by BP
- Ula oil field- Jurassic sandstone reservoir, operated by BP
- Gyda oil field - Jurassic sandstone reservoir, operated by Talisman Energy
- Blane oil field - Paleocene sandstone reservoir, operated by Talisman Energy
- Oselvar oil field - operated by DONG Energy
- Cod oilfield- decommissioned
- Northern North Sea
- Haltenbank; numerous developments in production, Heidrun gasfied, Draugen oil field, Ormen Lange etc.
Associated, but not strictly North Sea
- Ireland (includes Northern Ireland)
- Onshore
- Larne; tiny prospect under the basalts.
- Other small prospects, and significant coal-bed methane.
- Offshore
- Faroes
- Offshore
- Various blocks licensed for exploration, several discoveries not yet developed.
- Iceland
- Offshore
- Nothing published, but the idea is not inconceivable on the ridges extending towards Iceland from the Faroes and the East Greenland Coast.
- East Greenland
- Onshore
- No prospects reported, though sediments analogous to the Mesozoic and Caenozoic deposits of the North Sea are known, so there is appreciable interest. Development would be formidably difficult, technically, logistically and politically.
- Offshore
- A recent conference on hydrocarbon prospects in arctic Russia (Geological Society, London; February 2006) had several speakers mention major gas prospectivity on the East Greenland coast, but they cited no sources. A conference volume is due towards the end of 2006, which may elaborate.
- Barents Sea
- Onshore
- No significant prospects or potential.
- Offshore
See also
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