First Gas From the Corrib Field
Operator Shell announced today that gas production has started from the Corrib field off the northwest coast of Ireland.
The Corrib project, a joint venture between operator Shell E&P Ireland Limited (45 percent), Statoil Exploration Ireland Limited (36.5 percent) and Vermilion Energy Ireland Limited (18.5 percent), is located 83 kilometers off Ireland’s northwest coast in water depths of almost 350 meters. At peak annual production, the field is expected to produce around 260 MM scf/d of gas, which is 45,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d).
The Corrib field has been developed as a subsea-to-shore tieback solution with a pipeline leading the gas from the subsea wellheads to a landfall near the village of Glengad and onwards through an onshore pipeline to a gas processing terminal around nine kilometers inland. The gas is processed at the terminal before it is transferred into the Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) network, which delivers it to Irish gas consumers.
