A6 / B4
 
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Location of A6 / B4 in the North Sea and the German Exclusive Economic Zone |
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A6 / B4 is a gas field in the North Sea about 300 kilometers from the German coast . It lies in the so-called duckbill of the exclusive economic zone in which Germany has the sole right to economic exploitation.
Around 5% of German natural gas is produced in this gas field. By 2006 it was just under 1 billion cubic meters (6.7 billion m³ from the start of production to the end of 2006). This is the only German offshore gas field currently in operation (the only German oil field is Mittelplate off the Schleswig-Holstein coast).
This currently sixth most productive German natural gas field was discovered during test wells in 1974. The offshore platform has been producing gas since September 2000. The operator is the German North Sea Consortium ( BEB Erdgas und Erdöl , EWE , RWE Dea and Wintershall ), and the production operations are managed by the Dutch Wintershall Subsidiary Wintershall Noordzee BV
The drilling platform is 48 meters deep, the platform is 20 meters above the surface of the water and its superstructures protrude up to 50 meters above the surface of the water. It is 52 meters long, 33 meters wide and weighs a total of 4,500 tons. As a rule, ten workers work on it.
From there, gas and condensate is transported via a gas pipeline to a Dutch platform further south-east, where the condensate is loaded onto ships and the gas is transported to the Dutch mainland near Den Helder using the NOGAT pipeline .
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- ↑ Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology: Petroleum and Natural Gas in the Federal Republic of Germany 2006 , Hanover 2007, p. 33 as pdf
Coordinates: 56 ° N , 4 ° E