Gannet (oil field)
 
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Position of the gannet oil field in the North Sea |
The oil field Gannet ( English Gannet Oil Field ) is located about 180 kilometers east of the port city of Aberdeen in the North Sea in the area of the British economic zone . As with the other neighboring oil fields such as Statfjord , exploration depths are between 2500 and 3000 meters. There, in the Jura, sandstone emerged , in which oil and gas are located between the pores of the individual grains of sand. The name comes from the English name for the sea bird northern gannet .
A total of seven wells are operated by the Shell company, numbered with the letters A – G. The central oil platform Gannet Alpha produced 13,500 barrels of crude oil daily from January to April 2011 . Co-owner is Esso . The oil field is connected by a pipeline to the mainland near Teesside , where the Ekofisk pipes also end. On August 13, 2011 there was a report of a leak in a feed line to the platform that the operator could not seal. A week later, Shell announced the closure of the leak.
Individual evidence
- ↑ geographic.org
- ↑ Öko.net Müller & Brandt
- ^ BBC News
- ↑ You can't leave these corporations out there at sea alone on deutschlandfunk.de
- ↑ Oil: Shell stops oil leak on damaged platform at n-tv.de, August 19, 2011 (accessed on September 28, 2011).
Coordinates: 57 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ N , 1 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E