Elgin Oil and Gas Field (United Kingdom)

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Elgin Oil and Gas Field is an operating oil and gas field in United Kingdom.

Along with Franklin Oil and Gas Field (United Kingdom) and West Franklin Gas Field (United Kingdom), Elgin Oil and Gas Field is a part of the Elgin-Franklin Oil and Gas Project (United Kingdom).

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Elgin Oil and Gas Field

¹Final Investment Decision

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type
Elgin	operating	Totalenergies Upstream Uk	other [22%]; Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd [21%]; TotalEnergies SE [25%]; Harbour Energy PLC [19%]; EF Oil & Gas Ltd [10%]	1991	1997	2001	conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Elgin Oil and Gas Field

million m³ = million cubic meters

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
gas	recoverable resources	12261.26	million m³	2021	​

Table 3: Production from Elgin Oil and Gas Field

million m³/y = million cubic meters per year
million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	gas	1617.17	million m³/y	2019	​
production	oil	9.62	million bbl/y	2019	​
production	gas	1718.18	million m³/y	2022	​
production	oil	6.46	million bbl/y	2022	​
production	associated gas	1340.08	million m³/y	2023	​
production	dry gas	0.0	million m³/y	2023	​
production	gas condensate	0.0	million bbl/y	2023	​
production	oil	6.6	million bbl/y	2023	​

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Elgin Oil and Gas Field

Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
022/30c	offshore, United Kingdom	offshore	57.0027, 1.8519 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field(s) within the Elgin-Franklin Oil and Gas Project (United Kingdom):

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