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Forties Oil Field

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The Forties Oil Field is the largest oil field in the North Sea, 110 miles east of Aberdeen. [1]

16 relations: Aberdeen, Abyssal fan, Apache Corporation, BP, Ekofisk oil field, Forties pipeline system, North Sea, North Sea oil, Oil field, Oil in place, Paleocene, Sandstone, Scotland, Sea Quest, Semi-submersible, Tertiary.

Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.

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Abyssal fan

Abyssal fans, also known as deep-sea fans, underwater deltas, and submarine fans, are underwater geological structures associated with large-scale sediment deposition and formed by turbidity currents.

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Apache Corporation

Apache Corporation is an American petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Houston.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Ekofisk oil field

Ekofisk is an oil field in block 2/4 of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea about southwest of Stavanger.

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Forties pipeline system

The Forties pipeline system (FPS) is a major pipeline network in the North Sea carrying 30% of the UK's oil, or about of oil a day, to shore.

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North Sea

The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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North Sea oil

North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid petroleum and natural gas, produced from petroleum reservoirs beneath the North Sea.

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Oil field

An "oil field" or "oilfield" is a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (crude oil) from below ground.

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Oil in place

Oil in place (OIP) (not to be confused with original oil-in-place (OOIP)) is a specialist term in petroleum geology that refers to the total oil content of an oil reservoir.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Sea Quest

The Sea Quest was a semi-submersible drilling rig.

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Semi-submersible

Semi-submersible may refer to a self-propelled vessel, such as.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forties_Oil_Field

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