Arkwright

(BP-Amoco)

Offshore oil field in production.

Block and licence number:

22/23a, P.291

Map reference:

Plate 9

Grid reference:

1° 30’ E 57° 18’ N

Licensees and company interest in block (%) at end of 2000:

Enterprise Oil plc

41.02

Amoco UK Petroleum Ltd

30.77

Amerada Hess Ltd

28.21

Date of discovery:

April 1990

Production start:

November 1996

Operator’s estimate of:

 

Recoverable reserves originally present :

Oil (million tonnes): 3.39
Gas: (billion cubic metres): 0.02

First year of peak production:

1997

Peak production (million tonnes per year):

0.473

Water depth:

95m

Gravity:

40º API

Sulphur content:

None

Transport system:

Oil pipeline via Arbroath, Montrose and Forties to Cruden Bay.

Extension into other UK blocks:

None

Remarks:

Subsea Tieback to Arbroath (6.8 miles SE of Arbroath).