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PUBLISHING & MARKETING

OE Opinion

Chairman

Shaun Wymes [email protected]

President/Publisher

Undercurrents

Brion Palmer [email protected]

Associate Publisher

Neil Levett [email protected]

Third time’s the charm

EDITORIAL orty years ago this month, after a cessation of production, the ? eld was

Managing Editor

Audrey Leon

F frenzy of exploration and something producing 5000 bo/d with a 70% water [email protected] of a race to be ? rst, ? rst oil was produced cut.

European Editor from the UK North Sea. However, with reserves remaining in

Elaine Maslin [email protected]

Opened by then-UK Energy Secretary the ground, a new operator decided it

Senior Editor

Tony Benn, the Hamilton Brothers’ was worth bringing back into produc-

Jeannie Stell

Argyll ? eld beat BP’s Forties ? eld to the tion. Tuscan and Acorn renamed the ? eld [email protected] post by just over three months. Hamilton Ardmore and brought it back on stream

Web Editor

Melissa Sustaita

Brothers had upstaged BP by deploying in 2003, producing 5.2 MMbbl up to [email protected] a ? oating production unit – a modi? ed 2005. But, due to low pro? tability, it was

Contributors

John Bradbury, Eugene Gerden, drilling rig – with shuttle tankers to again decommissioned.

Emma Gordon, Greg Hale, Heather Saucier export the oil. In 2011, a new operator – thrice lucky

Editorial Assistant

As our regular readers will know, for Argyll – UK independent EnQuest

Jerry Lee

Editorial Interns this year, too, is OE’s 40th anniversary. took over the Ardmore license and

Greg App

What may be truly amazing to those submitted plans to redevelop the ? eld,

Elia Barnett bell-bottom-wearing early pioneers, both renaming it Alma, via six production

ART AND PRODUCTION at OE and at Hamilton Brothers and BP, wells and two water injection wells, from

Bonnie James

Verzell James is that all three are still going (albeit two subsea templates, using the 57,000

CONFERENCES & EVENTS with something of a stop-start history at boe/d and 625,000 crude storage capac-

Events Coordinator

Argyll), despite early expectations that ity Uisge Gorm FPSO, now renamed the

Jennifer Granda the industry would be short-lived. EnQuest Producer. Last month, EnQuest [email protected]

Exhibition/Sponsorship Sales

OE, like the North Sea’s innovative started pulling in risers on the EnQuest

Gisset Capriles supply chain, has continued to grow, Producer and ? rst production is expected [email protected] expanding globally. Forties is still pro- mid-2015.

PRINT ducing, well past its expected cessation It’s later than EnQuest’s initial 2H 2013

Quad Graphics, West Allis, Wisconsin, USA of production date, and, despite decom- plan, but, it’s better late than never for the

EDITORIAL ADVISORS

John Chianis,

Houston O