Amoco (U.K.) Exploration Co. has disclosed plans to expand its Central Area Transmission System (CATS) gas terminal at Teesside, U.K., in a 70 million ($105 million) program.
The project will enable the terminal to handle 360 MMcfd from Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) fields in the North Sea, which operator BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. plans to place on stream in 1998 (OGJ, Jan. 22, p. 21).
The latest expansion will add 600 MMcfd to plant capacity. It follows an earlier expansion project of 600 MMcfd, currently under construction.
Equipment to be installed under the latest project will include a natural gas liquids recovery and fractionation train, dehydration facilities, and compressors.
Amoco said the 255 mile CATS line will soon be shipping about 1.6 bcfd of gas plus natural gas liquids to shore. That will be about 20% of the entire North Sea's gas production.
Besides Amoco's Everest and Lomond fields, which began sending about 300 MMcfd through CATS in 1993, the Teesside terminal will handle gas from a list of fields that includes Judy, Joanne, Andrew, Erskine, the Armada complex made up of Drake, Fleming, and Hawkins, and ETAP's Marnock, Machar, Mungo, Monan, Egret, Heron, and Skua fields.
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