BP Completes Clair Ridge Construction
Supermajor BP has competed construction work at its West of Shetland Clair Ridge development in the UK North Sea, taking the project another step closer to first production.
BP announced the milestone at the delayed twin-platform, located 75 kilometres west of Shetland, on Tuesday on social media.
Final hook-up and commissioning are now expected to follow, with first oil anticipated towards the end of 2017.
Clair Ridge, the second phase of development at Clair, was originally expected on stream this year. However, delays to construction of the DP modules pushed back production by more than a year at the Block 206/8 project.
The development, owned by co-venture partners, BP, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Shell, will produce an estimated 640 million barrels of oil over a 40-year period, with peak production expected to reach rates of up to 120,000 barrels per day of oil, according to BP.
