The Siri oil field and its satellites, Nini and Cecille, are oil producing fields in the Danish sector of the southern
North Sea
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. Operating since 1999 and 2003 they are the most northerly of Denmark's offshore oil assets located close to the Denmark-Norway median line.
The fields
The Siri field comprises a
sandstone
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...
reservoir of oil with a low gas content.
It is in Block 5604/20 in the far north of the Danish sector near the Denmark-Norway median line. The Siri reservoir comprises four areas: Siri Central; Siri North; to the north east Stine segment 2; and Stine segment 1. The field is developed through a single installation (designated SCA) located over the Siri Central formation with subsea wells exploiting Stine1 & 2.
The Nini field is to the north east of the Siri field and is a sandstone oil reservoir. It has been developed through two platforms (Nini A and Nini B also known as Nini East and Nini West) with well fluids piped to Siri SCA installation for processing.
The Cecilie field is located south west of the Siri field, it too is a sandstone oil reservoir. It has been developed by a wellhead platform with well fluids routed to Siri SCA for processing.
Key parameters of the fields are given in the table.
Owners and operators
The licence for the Siri field was originally owned by Dong Energy (50%), Altinex (20%) and Talisman (30%). The operator licence was taken over by Dong Energy from Statoil in 2002. The Siri, Nini and Cecilie fields are currently owned and operated by DONG E & P A/S.
Production infrastructure
The fields have been exploited by several subsea and topside installations, as shown in the table.
The Siri, Nini and Cecilie fields are stranded assets remote from export infrastructure such as pipelines. Oil from SCA is routed to a 50,000 m
3 storage tank on the seabed. The tank is 50 m x 66 m and 17.5 m high. It is emptied periodically by tanker via a Single Anchor Loading (SAL) buoy mooring system.
Pipelines
In addition to the offshore installations there are a number of pipelines connecting and transferring fluids within the fields
Oil production
The oil produced across the fields is shown in the tables.
Water and recovered gas are co-injected into the Siri and Nini reservoirs to increase oil recovery.
An average of 2.98 million m
3 of water per year is injected.
The future
The Project Greensand
consortium has identified the Nini West subsea reservoir as a feasible carbon dioxide (CO
2) storage facility.
The reservoir is suitable for injecting 0.45 million tonnes CO
2 per year per well for a 10-year period and that it can safely contain the CO
2 in compressed form. If successful the project could be extended to the whole Siri field. Work on the project is ongoing.
See also
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Skjold oil field
The Skjold oil field () is a crude oil and associated gas production field in the Danish sector of the central North Sea, close to the Danish-German median line. Production of oil started in 1982, peak oil was achieved in 1991 and production is ...
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Gorm Field
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Tyra field
Tyra Field is the largest gas condensate field in the Danish Sector of the North Sea. It was discovered in 1968 and production started in 1984.
The field is owned by Dansk Undergrunds Consortium, a partnership between Total, BlueNord and Nord ...
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Dan oil field
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Halfdan field
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Valdemar oil and gas field
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South Arne oil and gas field
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Harald gas field
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Ravn oil field
References
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Natural gas fields in Denmark
Oil fields of Denmark
North Sea energy