North Sea's Gadwall field development plan gets green light

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Oct. 1 -- The UK Department of Trade and Industry approved a development plan for Gadwall oil field on Block 21/19 in the Greater Kittiwake Area (GKA). First oil is expected by February 2005.

GKA is in the central North Sea surrounding the Kittiwake production platform, in which Dana Petroleum PLC, Aberdeen, UK, and Venture Production PLC, Aberdeen, each have a 50% interest. Venture operates Gadwall, which is expected to produce 6.6 million bbl of oil and 4.4 bcf of natural gas during 10 years.

Gadwall will be developed with a production well and injector well completed subsea and tied back to the Kittiwake platform. The Gadwall discovery well was drilled in 1996 and suspended. Completion of that well is expected in the fourth quarter.