The Brent System pipeline transports oil from the

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s via Cormorant Alpha to the

Sullom Voe Terminal The Sullom Voe Terminal is an oil and gas terminal at Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It handles production from oilfields in the North Sea and East Shetland Basin and stores oil before it is transported by tanker. Constructio ...

in Shetland,

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. Since 3 August 2009, it is operated by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company replacing the previous operator

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. The Brent system is jointly owned by 21 companies.

Oil transportation system

Oil is transported from 20 oilfields, including: *

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* Murchison * Hutton * North West Hutton *

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* Brent A, B,C & D * Cormorant Alpha * North Cormorant *

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Pipelines

The Cormorant A to Sullom Voe pipeline is diameter steel (API 5L X60) of in length. It has capacity of . The Brent C to Cormorant A pipeline is 30 inches (760 mm) in diameter and 35 kilometres (22 mi) long. Other oil pipelines are:Shell UK Limited, Brent field pipelines decommissioning programme (2020) The specification for crude oil transported in the Brent system is as follows:

Production

Oil production from the Brent field from 1976 to 1983 was as follows (1000 barrels):

Decommissioning

Shell UK Limited propose to decommission the Brent Field pipelines in the mid-2020s.

References

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