ALBA PHASE II NORTH SEA NORTHERN, UNITED KINGDOM
Alba was discovered in 1984, north east of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. This field has estimated reserves of
around 400 million bbl oil in place. Chevron was involved in the first testing and discovery of this field.
Developments were carried out in two steps and Alba Northern Platform developed the north sector. Step two they
realized that the distance was unrealistic to develop the southern part of the field with the ANP. New manifolds
and flow line networks were installed to develop the southern end of the field. The ANP was accelerated up from
240,000 to 390,000 bopd. To handle the increased production, a minor face lift and new equipment was installed
to meet the demands of the new production rates.
The ANP, fully self sufficient platform had the ability to perform all jobs related to oil extraction processing
and storage of crude oil.
The subsea network connects the southern field with the northern platform. The Alba platform has plenty of room
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Alba is located in block 16/26, 130 miles north-east of
Aberdeen.
The Northern Alba Platform was shut down for 18 hours,
during the installation of four new modules.
The Alba platform, with the new modules installed.
The Alba Phase II hook-up.
The control room on the Alba platform.
Workers from the Safe Caledonia flotel complete work on
the topsides for Alba Phase II.
The Alba floating storage unit (FSU).
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