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Aberdeen, Scotland - Nov. 7, 2016 Chevron North Sea Limited today announced it has started production at Alder, a high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) gas condensate field in the Central North Sea. "First gas at Alder represents a significant milestone for Chevron and highlights our commitment to investing and developing resources in the U.K.,” said Greta Lydecker, managing director, Chevron Upstream Europe. “The safe and successful completion of this project was underpinned by strong collaboration between Chevron and Alder co-venturer ConocoPhillips. Alder supports our goal of helping maximize the economic recovery of the U.K., adds significant production to our portfolio, and helps extend the field life of Britannia, an important asset to Chevron in the North Sea.”
Alder is a single subsea well tied back, via a 28 kilometer pipeline, to the existing ConocoPhillips-operated Britannia Platform, in which Chevron holds a 32.38 percent non-operated working interest. The project has a planned design capacity of 110 million cubic feet of natural gas and 14,000 barrels of condensate per day. Production from the HPHT Alder Field is expected to ramp up over the coming months. More than 70 percent of the Alder development work was executed by U.K. based companies, providing significant investment to the U.K. supply chain. The contracts supported several hundred jobs across a range of U.K. locations including Aberdeen, Invergordon, Leeds and Newcastle. Discovered in 1975, the development has been enabled through the application of innovative subsea technologies designed to meet the temperature and pressure challenges of Alder. Key technologies have included a number of firsts for Chevron in the North Sea, including a vertical mono-bore subsea tree system; a subsea high integrity pressure protection system (HIPPS); and a specially designed corrosion monitoring system to measure the real-time condition of the production pipeline. Chevron Upstream Europe (CUE) is a strategic business unit of Chevron’s Europe, Eurasia and Middle East (EEME) Operating Company, and is headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland. CUE manages the company’s upstream exploration and production interests in Denmark, Greenland, Norway and the United Kingdom. Chevron currently has over 800 upstream staff and contractors across its European operations, including the Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Aberdeen. In the United Kingdom, Chevron North Sea Limited (CNSL) has working interests in 10 offshore producing fields, including three operated fields (Alba, 23.4 percent; Captain, 85 percent; and Erskine, 50 percent) and seven non-operated fields (Britannia, 32.4 percent; Brodgar, 25 percent; Callanish, 16.5 percent; Clair, 19.4 percent; Elgin/Franklin, 3.9 percent; Enochdhu, 50 percent; and Jade, 19.9 percent). CNSL’s net daily production in 2015 from these fields averaged 40,000 barrels of liquids and 115 million cubic feet of natural gas. More information about Chevron in the UK is available at www.chevronunitedkingdom.com • The Alder Field was discovered in 1975. • Alder is a high-pressure; high-temperature (HPHT) gas condensate field located around 100 miles (160 km) from the Scottish coastline in the Central North Sea, in water depths of approximately 492 feet (150 m). • Alder is a single subsea well tied back to the existing Britannia Bridge Linked Platform (BLP) via a 17.4 mile (28 km) production flowline. • Alder produced fluids are processed at a dedicated module attached to the Britannia BLP. Alder condensate will be exported via the Forties Pipeline System to Grangemouth terminal and gas exported to the Scottish Area Gas Evacuation terminal at St Fergus, near Peterhead, Scotland. • The project has a design capacity of 14,000 barrels of condensate and 110 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. • Alder brings a new stream of production to Chevron and the U.K. while helping to extend the field life of Britannia. • More than 70 percent of Alder’s key contracts were placed with U.K. companies. • Technology and innovation have been key to unlocking the potential of the Alder Field. • Alder is operated by Chevron North Sea Limited (73.7 percent); ConocoPhillips (U.K.) Limited holds a 26.3 percent interest in the field. Chevron Corporation press release |
