Frigg UK Gas Pipeline System

From Global Energy Monitor
This article is part of the Global Fossil Infrastructure Tracker, a project of Global Energy Monitor.
Sub-articles:

Frigg U.K. Gas Pipeline System is a natural gas transportation system from the North Sea gas fields to St. Fergus near Peterhead in Scotland. It transports natural gas from the Alwyn North, Dunbar, Ellon, Grant, Nuggets, Frigg, Bruce, Ross, Captain, Buzzard, Tartan, Piper, Chanter, Galley, Hamish, Highlander, Ivanhoe, MacCulloch, Petronella, Saltire, and Rob Roy offshore gas fields in the North Sea.[1]

Location

The pipeline runs from North Sea gas fields to St. Fergus, United Kingdom.[2]

Loading map...

Project Details

  • Operator: North Stream Midstream Partners
  • Owner: North Stream Midstream Partners[3]
  • Current capacity:
  • Proposed capacity:
  • Length: 479.6 km[2]
  • Diameter:
  • Status: Operating[2]
  • Start Year:

Background

The Frigg Transportation System a 32 inch pipeline 362 kilometers in length from Frigg to St. Fergus and a 24 inch pipeline 110.2 km in length from Alwyn to Frigg.[2] The UK pipeline principally transports gas from the Alwyn Area and Bruce field with a number of smaller fields linking into it. Construction of the main pipeline, the Frigg UK pipeline, started in 1974 and was completed in 1977. It was built to transport natural gas from the Frigg gas field to the United Kingdom. Because of technical limitations, it was decided to build two parallel pipelines, one (the Frigg UK pipeline) by the United Kingdom and one by Norway (former Frigg Norwegian Pipeline, now Vesterled Gas Pipeline. Even in British waters, until 1998 both pipelines were in Norwegian jurisdiction.[4]

Frigg To St. Fergus Pipeline

Location

Loading map...

Project Details

  • Operator: Total E&P UK Ltd
  • Current capacity: 55 million cubic meters per day
  • Proposed capacity:
  • Length: 362 km
    • Frigg-St. Fergus North: 186.6 km[2]
    • Frigg-St. Fergus South: 175.3 km[2]
  • Diameter: 32 inch[2]
  • Status: Operating[2]
  • Start Year: 1991[2]
  • Identifiers:
    • OGA Pipeline Numbers:
      • Frigg-St. Fergus North: PL6N[2]
      • Frigg-St. Fergus South: PL6S[2]

Alwyn to Frigg Pipeline

Location

Loading map...

Project Details

  • Operator:
  • Current capacity:
  • Proposed capacity:
  • Length: 110.2 km[2]
  • Diameter: 24 inch[2]
  • Status: Operating[2]
  • Start Year: 1991[2]
  • Identifiers:
    • OGA Pipeline Number: PL336

Articles and resources

References

  1. St. Fergus Gas Terminal, Total, accessed March, 2018
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 Smith, Bee (September 24, 2021). "Pipelines Linear (ED50)". Oil and Gas Authority Open Data. Retrieved October 15, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "NSMP - Home". nsmp-limited.com. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  4. Capturing the Energy, University of Aberdeen, accessed March, 2018

Related GEM.wiki articles

External resources

External articles

Wikipedia also has an article on Frigg UK System (Frigg UK System). This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License].