JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration announces field development plan approved for Mariner in UK North Sea

Monday, Feb 18, 2013

JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration (President and CEO, Shigeo Hirai) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, JX Nippon Exploration and Production (U.K.) Limited (“JXNEPUK”, President and CEO, Kemmei Nakata), having already made its investment decision, has now received approval, from the UK authority (DECC), of the Field Development Plan (FDP) for the Mariner Field. The field is located in Block 9/11a in the UK North Sea, about 150km east of Shetlands.

The Mariner Field is one of the largest undeveloped oil fields in the UK North Sea. It is estimated that the recoverable reserve exceeds 250 million barrels and that the average daily oil production rate will be around 55,000 barrels during the initial four years. The expected field life is about 30 years from 2017.

The development plan for the Mariner Field requires the construction of a production, drilling and quarters platform (PDQ) together with a floating storage and offloading system (FSU). The development plan requires the drilling of a significant number of production wells after startup in 2017 to optimise production. The total investment in the Mariner Field, including all the drilling, is estimated to be more than 7 billion US dollars.

The Mariner Field is one of our major assets in the UK, and we expect that it will contribute to the achievement of our long term daily production goal of 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent by 2020. We will work with our co-venturers to achieve production startup in 2017.

Source: JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration

To access over 3,000 of the latest oil projects from across the world visit Projects OGP for free trial today