Angus commissions permanent flowline

Angus Energy plc has commissioned the permanent flowline from the BO7T sidetrack well at the Saltfleetby gas field in Lincolnshire.

COST REDUCTIONS

In May the company connected the well with a temporary flowline and began construction of its permanent replacement.

“This has been a challenging project not least because of the weather conditions during construction but also because of the technical challenges in finalising the flowline design,” said the company today.

Chief executive officer Richard Herbert said that the temporary separator and flowline configuration had added “complexity and costs to the operations at the field”.

“The period of well clean up was much longer than we had expected, due to incomplete acidisation of the mud additives used to control the wellbore during the drilling of the reservoir section.

“Now that fines production has reduced and with the completion of the engineering works to install the permanent flowline, we are seeing stable well performance and will have a significant reduction in operating costs with the removal of expensive rented equipment and personnel required for the temporary flowline.”