Schooner (Shell)
Offshore gas field in production.
Block and licence number: 44/26a, P.516
Map reference: Plate 10
Licensees and company interest in block (%) at end of 1997:
Shell U.K. Ltd. 50.00
Esso Exploration and Production UK Ltd. 50.00
Date of discovery: December 1986
Production start: October 1996
Operator’s estimate of:  
Recoverable reserves originally present (billion cubic metres): 17.34
First year of peak production: 1997
Peak production (billion cubic metres per year): 1.40
Water depth: 71m
Transport system: Pipeline to Theddlethorpe via Caister-Murdoch System.
Extension into other UK blocks: Block number, licence number and licensee/company interest in block (%) at end of 1997:

43/30, P.689

Eastern Natural Gas (Offshore) Ltd 70.00
Cal Energy Gas (UK) Ltd. 30.00
Remarks:  
Name Schooner Shell’s later gas fields in the Southern North Sea are named after sailing vessels.

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Appendix 1 | Appendix 2 | Appendix 3 | Appendix 4 | Appendix 5 | Appendix 6 | Appendix 7 | Appendix 8
Appendix 9 | Appendix 10 | Appendix 11 | Appendix 12 | Appendix 13 | Appendix 14 | Appendix 15 | Appendix 16 | Appendix 17
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