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Statfjord A in 1982 |
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| Country | Norway |
| Region | North Sea |
| Offshore/onshore | Offshore |
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| Operator(s) | Statoil |
| Field history | |
| Start of production | 1979 |
| Peak of production | January 16, 1987 |
| Abandonment | 2019 |
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| Current production of oil (barrels per day) | 70,000 |
| Current production of gas (million cubic feet per day) | none |
The Statfjord oil field is an enormous oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Statoil.
It is a trans-median field crossing the Norwegian and UK North Sea Boundary with approximately 15% being in the UK Continental Shelf waters. At peak production it produced over 700,000 barrels (110,000 m3) of oil per day. Oil is loaded offshore and taken directly to refineries; gas is transported via the Statpipe pipeline to mainland Norway.
The Statfjord field has three condeep concrete production platforms, A, B and C. Each platform is made up of approximately 250,000 tonnes of concrete with 40,000 tonnes of top-side processing and accommodation facilities.
Statfjord holds the record for the highest daily production ever recorded for a European oil field (outside Russia) : 850,204 barrels (135,171.6 m3) (crude oil plus natural gas liquids) were produced on January 16, 1987. Current production is less than 70,000 barrels per day (11,000 m3/d), and no European field exceeds 250,000 barrels per day (40,000 m3/d).
Statoil has planned the "late life" of the field expects to ultimately recover 68% of Oil in Place.[1] but more than 60% have been produced already, leaving modest oil reserves in the order of 300,000,000 barrels (48,000,000 m3), so the focus will now be placed on extracting the associated natural gas that had been re-injected into the field all over its life. As a mainly natural gas producer, Statfjord is scheduled to remain active until 2019.
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In December 2007, thousands of tonnes of oil were spilled into the North Sea during the loading of a tanker at the Statfjord oil field. The spill, estimated at 21,750 barrels (approx 3,000 metric tons), was the country's second largest ever, according to Norway's oil safety authority. The accident happened in rough weather while the tanker Navion Britannica was loading oil from a storage buoy, according to the operator Statoil.[2]
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