Regulating Safety, Regulating Profit: Cost-Cutting, Injury and Death in the British North Sea after Piper Alpha

10.2190/wdtc7 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Whyte
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Cost Cutting

The Thistle Field, Blocks 211/18a, 211/19a, UK North Sea

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 383-392
Author(s):  
A. M. Brown ◽  
A. D. Milne ◽  
A. Kay
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Oil Price ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Price Fluctuations ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
Cumulative Production

AbstractCumulative production of oil from the Thistle Field had reached almost 400 MMBBL by the end of 2000. Thistle is a success story and has been producing for over 20 years. It is now in its late stage of field life and is close to achieving a 50% recovery factor of its estimated 824 MMBBL STOIIP. The millennium challenge is to continue economic production and further increase reserves recovery. It has survived the full range of oil price fluctuations with all the accompanying cost cutting initiatives in late life becoming the benchmark for end of field life performance.

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