LNG

Nov 6 (LNGJ) - UK major BP said production had successfully started from the Seagull oil and natural gas field in the UK North Sea, boosting energy security and underpinning continued production from an offshore facility that’s been operating for 25 years while supplying more oil to Scotland and natural gas to England.

   The Seagull field has been developed by Neptune Energy, now being acquired by Italy’s Eni, as a subsea tieback to the BP-operated central processing facility of the Eastern Trough Area Project in the central North Sea, around 140 miles (225km) east of Aberdeen. “Oil from Seagull is exported through the Forties Pipeline System to Grangemouth in central Scotland and natural gas to Teesside via the Central Area Transmission System,” said BP. The new field is expected to produce around 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent gross per day at peak production.

Ineos Group, the UK multinational chemicals company with ethane trading links to the US Gulf Coast, has signed an accord with Sempra Infrastructure to secure future cargoes from the planned Port Arthur LNG export project in Texas or the expansion of the existing Cameron LNG plant at Hackberry in Louisiana.