Statfjord oil field

Statfjord
North Sea Fields
Statfjord oil field is located in North Sea
Statfjord oil field
Location of Statfjord
CountryNorway, Scotland
RegionNorth Sea
Offshore/onshoreOffshore
Coordinates61°15′20″N 1°51′14″E / 61.25556°N 1.85389°E / 61.25556; 1.85389
OperatorEquinor
Field history
Start of production1979
Peak of productionJanuary 16, 1987
Abandonment2032
Production
Current production of oil70,000 barrels per day (~3.5×10^6 t/a)
Current production of gasnone

The Statfjord oil field is a large oil and gas field covering 580 km2 along the U.K.-Norwegian boundary of the North Sea at a water depth of 145 m, discovered in 1974 by Mobil and since 1987 operated by Equinor.[1]

It is a trans-median field crossing the Norwegian and UK North Sea Boundary with approximately 15% being in the UK Continental Shelf waters. At peak production it produces over 700,000 barrels (110,000 m3) of oil per day. Oil is loaded offshore and taken directly to refineries; gas is transported via the Statpipe pipeline to mainland Norway.

  1. ^ Kirk, R.H., 1980, Statfjord Field-A North Sea Giant, in Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade:1968-1978, Halbouty, M.T. editor, AAPG Memoir 30, Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, ISBN 0891813063, pp. 95 and 100.