Frigg UK Gas Pipeline System

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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]

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Project Details

Mainline

  • Operator: PX Group [3]
  • Owner:
  • Current capacity:
  • Proposed capacity:
  • Length: 361 km[3]
  • Diameter: 32 In[3]
  • Status: Operating[2]
  • Start Year:

Alwyn Field–Frigg Field Gas Pipeline

  • Operator: PX Group
  • Owner: Total Energies E&P UK Ltd
  • Capacity:
  • Length: 110.2 km
  • Diameter: 24 inches
  • Status: Operating
  • Start Year: 1991

Background

The Frigg 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, started in 1974 and was completed in 1977. It was built to transport natural gas from the Frigg gas field to the United Kingdom. Due of technical limitations two parallel pipelines, the Frigg UK pipeline, and and the Vesterled Gas Pipeline(formerly Frigg Norwegian Pipeline).[4]

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References

  1. St. Fergus Gas Terminal, Total, accessed March, 2018
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "NSTA Offshore Infrastructure (WGS84)". opendata-nstauthority.hub.arcgis.com. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
  4. Capturing the Energy, University of Aberdeen, accessed March, 2018

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