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Oil rigs at Cromarty Firth, Scotland. In December 1969, Amoco discovered the Montrose Field about 217 km (135 mi) east of Aberdeen. [6] The original objective of the well had been to drill for gas to test the idea that the southern North Sea gas province extended to the north.
Oil fields in Scotland's territorial waters, as defined by the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Production from the field peaked in 1979 at 500 thousand barrels per day (79 thousand cubic metres per day), well above early predictions. The Forties field produced 41,704 barrels of oil and 10million cubic feet of associated gas per day during as of November 2013. It was the second highest producing field in the UK, after the Buzzard field. [14]
Oil fields of Scotland (1 C, 37 P) ... Pages in category "Oil and gas industry in Scotland" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The Clair oilfield is an offshore oil field in Scottish territorial waters 75 kilometres (47 mi) west of Shetland in water depths of up to 140 metres (460 ft). The field is the largest oilfield on the UK Continental Shelf with an estimated 8 billion barrels of oil-in-place, according to the BP Plc's website.
The Montrose oil field is located in Blocks 22/17 and 22/18 of the UK North Sea.It is named after the Scottish east coast town of Montrose.The field was discovered in November 1971 and is a Palaeocene sandstone at a depth of 8,000 feet (2,438 m). [1]
The onshore oil and gas resources in the United Kingdom are located in a number of provinces corresponding to prospective sedimentary basins. Provinces and Basins (from south to north) include the Wessex-Channel Basin, Weald Basin, Worcester Basin, Cheshire Basin, East Midlands Province, West Lancashire Basin, NE England Province, Northumberland-Solway Basin, Midland Valley of Scotland, and ...
The Lancaster oilfield is an offshore oil field in Scottish territorial waters 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Shetland and 170 kilometres (110 mi) north of mainland Scotland in water depths of around 155 metres (509 ft).