FRONT COVER

The front cover design depicts the Triton Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel facility. The estimated project expenditure on the Triton project is some £500 million and the project has created some 3,000 jobs in the UK. The project involves six partners; Amerada Hess, Veba Oil, Enterprise Oil, Paladin Resources plc, Esso and Shell. The project is on schedule and budget for first oil in Summer 1999.

Although the FPSO hull was built in South Korea the majority of the project work has been carried out in the United Kingdom and Amerada Hess currently estimate overall UK involvement at 78%. UK based Kvaerner Oil & Gas Ltd were awarded the prime contract for the FPSO, and carried out the design, engineering and procurement activities from their London offices with fabrication, installation and commissioning on Teesside. Aberdeen based Stolt Comex Seaway has been responsible for the other major contract to supply and install the subsea facilities. In turn local economies   from the Isle of Lewis to the South East of England have benefited from competitive UK companies winning sub-contract work.

The Triton vessel is similar to an oil tanker in appearance, and does the same job as a traditional fixed oil and gas production platform. It also has the advantage of being simpler to maintain and at the end of the field’s working life can be re-used on another oil field. The functions of an FPSO are as the name implies. The vessel is permanently moored and floats, unlike most oil platforms, and it produces oil and gas from subsea wells. Oil is processed and stored on board the vessel and transported to shore in shuttle tankers.

The three fields which make up the Triton project are located about two hundred kilometres east of Aberdeen. The Bittern field is the biggest of the three, with oil and gas reserves estimated to last about thirteen years. The other two fields; Guillemot West and Guillemot Northwest have an estimated life of about ten years. The licensees have forged a strong and positive alliance to jointly develop the fields using an FPSO. The individual field operators will be responsible for managing field development with Amerada Hess managing the design and fabrication of the FPSO and the day-to-day operations in the field. A fully integrated development team has been drawn from the participating companies and is being directed by a joint management. This is the first time that a joint operation has been successfully established for a multi-field, floating production development.

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Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9
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
Index Map | Plate 1 | Plate 2W | Plate 2E | Plate 3W | Plate 3E | Plate 4W | Plate 4E | Plate 5W | Plate 5E | Plate 6
Plate 7 | Plate 8W | Plate 8E | Plate 9W | Plate 9E | Plate 10W | Plate 10E | Plate 11 | Plate 12 | Legend
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