Joint venture partners Neptune Energy and Spirit Energy have started production from the tenth well at the Cygnus gas field in the UK Southern North Sea.
EMISSIONS
Operator Neptune (38.75%) said yesterday that drilling was carried out by Borr Drilling’s Prospector 1 jack-up rig.
The rig is the first in Borr’s fleet to be equipped with technologies that reduce carbon and nitrogen emissions from operations by up to 95%, and particle matter emissions by more than 85%.
Cygnus also has one of the lowest carbon intensities on the UK Continental Shelf, at ~4kg of CO2/boe1.
The company added that Cygnus was now capable of producing enough natural gas to meet the needs of approximately 2 million UK households.
ELEVENTH WELL
Neptune has now begun drilling on the 11th well on the Cygnus field, which is expected to begin production during Q2 this year.