Kraken Oil and Gas Field (United Kingdom)

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Kraken Oil and Gas Field is an operating oil and gas field in United Kingdom.

Kraken Oil and Gas Field is a part of the Kraken complex.

Project Details

Main Data

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

¹Final Investment Decision

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type
Kraken	Operating	Enquest Plc	Enquest Plc (70.5%); Waldorf Production UK Ltd. (29.5%)	1995	2013	2016	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Kraken Oil and Gas Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	128	million bbl	2017	​

Table 3: Production from Kraken Oil and Gas Field

million m³/y = million cubic meters per year
million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	gas	36.69	million m³/y	2019
production	oil	11.0	million bbl/y	2019
production	gas	44.23	million m³/y	2022
production	oil	8.19	million bbl/y	2022
production	oil	5.74	million bbl/y	2023
production	associated gas	32.27	million m³/y	2023
production	dry gas	0	million m³/y	2023
production	gas condensate	0	million bbl/y	2023

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Kraken Oil and Gas Field

Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
9/2-1	Offshore, United Kingdom	Offshore	59.9091, 1.2503 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field(s) within the Kraken complex:

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