Harding Redevelopment Oil and Gas Field (United Kingdom)

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Harding Redevelopment Oil and Gas Field is an in development oil and gas field in United Kingdom.

Harding Redevelopment Oil and Gas Field is also sometimes referred to as Harding North.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Harding Redevelopment Oil and Gas Field

¹Final Investment Decision
²If a country or region is known to not produce any hydrocarbons in an unconventional method, this production type is assumed to be conventional

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type2
Harding Redevelopment	In development	TAQA Bratani Limited	TAQA (70.0%); TotalEnergies (30.0%)	1987	–	–	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Harding Redevelopment Oil and Gas Field

million boe = million barrels of oil equivalent

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
hydrocarbons	remaining economically recoverable volumes	58	million boe	2022	​

Location

Table 3: Field-level location details for Harding Redevelopment Oil and Gas Field

Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
9/23b	Offshore, United Kingdom	Offshore	59.2893, 1.5325 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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Background

Harding oil field was discovered in 1987 by Britoil (now owned by BP). The field is composed of five separate reservoirs, which include the central field and four smaller fields to the North, North-East, South, and South-East. It began producing oil in 1996.

Harding production of oil began in 1996 and peaked in 1999. It has produced 286.8 Mmbbl of oil and 129 bcf (22.2 Mmboe) of gas in its lifetime.

Gas redevelopment project

In 2006, BP announced plans to develop the gas resources in the reservoir via the Harding Area Gas Project; however, the project was abandoned due multiple factors, including scope of work, high development costs, and low gas prices. In 2013, TAQA completed the acquisition of the field from BP, becoming the operator of the field. In 2017, TAQA and Maersk funded concept studies on potential facilities for supporting a project to exploit the remaining gas reserves at the field. In 2019, TAQA submitted an environmental statement about a proposed project at Harding but the document was not made available to the public.

Production at the gas field was expected to commence once the remaining recoverable oil has been produced from the area, although no clear FID or start date has been reported.

Ownership

The field was originally owned by TAQA (70%), with TAQA Bratani Limited as the operator, and Maersk (30%). In August 2018, Total acquired Maersk and its North Sea assets, including the 30% interest in the Harding oil field. TAQA is a fully owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. In December 2021, TAQA was intent on selling its North Sea assets, including the Harding oil field. This sale would also include the potential gas blowdown project at Harding and at TAQA’s other Quadrant 9 Area fields.

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