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the company/overview
TOTAL E&P UK Limited is one of the largest oil and gas companies in the UK and part of the global business of the TOTAL Group, the fourth largest integrated oil and gas company in the world. The TOTAL Group, which has its headquarters in Paris, has operations in 130 countries and employs almost 100,000 people worldwide. The Groups operations cover the entire range of oil and gas related activities, including exploration & production, trading & shipping and refining & marketing - as well as the manufacture and supply of a comprehensive range of chemical products. The UK Upstream subsidiary, TOTAL E&P UK, has its headquarters in Aberdeen, Europes oil and gas capital, and is one of the largest operators on the UK Continental Shelf in terms of production and reserves. The company employs over 700 people, split between its onshore sites and its offshore facilities. Being part of an international Group means that the workforce includes both local and expatriate staff, drawn from more than 30 countries. With its affiliates, TOTAL E&P UK owns and operates the Alwyn North, Dunbar, Ellon, Grant, Nuggets, Forvie, Jura and Otter fields in the Northern North Sea. It also operates the Elgin, Franklin, West Franklin and Glenelg Fields in the Central Graben Area of the Central North Sea. The company and its UK affiliates also have a number of non-operated interests in the Central and Northern North Sea including Bruce, ETAP, Alba, Armada and Nelson and has an interest in the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal on Shetland. Onshore, TOTAL E&P UK operates the St Fergus Gas Terminal on the northeast coast of Scotland, which receives and processes up to 20% of the UKs natural gas requirements from over 20 fields in the UK and Norway. It owns 100% of the Terminals facilities and 50% of the Common Facilities, the remainder of the plant being owned by the Norwegian Association, Gassled. The company has a 100% interest in the UK Frigg pipeline (FUKA), an interest in the SEAL (Shearwater Elgin Area Line) pipeline through Elgin Franklin Oil and Gas Limited (EFOG), which is owned 77.5% by Elf Exploration UK Limited and 22.5% by Gaz de France. EFOG has a 25.73 per cent share in SEAL.
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TOTAL E&P UK continues to maintain its company-wide registration to ISO-14001, the international Environment Management System standard. This is globally recognised as reflecting a level of good business practice and underlines a companys genuine commitment to sustainable development. We are very proud of this achievement and through the maintenance and improvement of our management systems, hope to continue improving our environmental performance. The Terminal also holds EMAS (Eco-Management Audit Scheme) accreditation, as well as ISO 14001 certification, which represents the highest international standards of environmental management. EMAS accreditation aims to recognise and reward those who go above the minimum legal compliance and continuously improve their environmental performance, which is also a key requirement of ISO 14001 certification. 2008 saw the launch of TOTAL E&P UKs Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Vision five individual elements that work together to drive our SHE performance. These five areas competence, supervision, SHE culture, risk assessment and asset integrity will give us clear platforms on which to focus our efforts in the coming years.
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St Fergus/the history
The very large Frigg Field justified the building of the St Fergus Terminal in 1977 but the field has now ceased production. However, due to new discoveries and third party business the pipelines and Terminal system will continue to be an essential hub in providing an efficient and economic route for gas into the UK market. The pipeline system consists of two 32 pipelines, 362 km in length. The UK line principally transports gas from the Alwyn Area fields and from the Bruce area but with a number of other fields linked into it. The Norwegian pipeline is known as Vesterled and was extended in 2001 to the Heimdal field riser, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. This line allows continued export of Norwegian gas to the UK market through the St Fergus Terminal. UK fields connected to the UK pipeline and then into the St Fergus Terminal include the TOTAL-operated Alwyn North, Dunbar, Ellon, Grant, Nuggets, Forvie North and Jura. Nonoperated fields connected into the UK pipeline include, or have included Bruce, Buzzard, Captain, Rhum, Chanter, Galley, Hamish, Highlander, Ivanhoe, MacCulloch, Petronella, Piper, Ross, Rob Roy, Tweedsmuir Area and Tartan. Following the cessation of production from Frigg field, a new pipeline was constructed connecting the 24 subsea line from the Alwyn Area, bypassing the Frigg TP1 platform and connecting directly into the 32 UK pipeline. This was completed in 2006.
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MCP-01/decommissioning
The Manifold Compression Platform MCP-01 is located in the UKCS mid-way along the pipelines between the Frigg Field and St Fergus Gas Terminal in Scotland. MCP-01 is a concrete gravity platform installed in 1976 in 94m of water, and came into operation in September 1977 when gas from the Frigg field started to flow. The original purpose of the platform was to act as a compression and interconnection platform for the Frigg Transportation System consisting of the 32 FUKA and 32 Vesterled pipelines which transported gas from the Frigg Field to the St Fergus Gas Terminal. During summer 2004 and 2005 these pipelines were re-routed to bypass MCP-01 to allow the installation to be decommissioned. Over four years, during the decommissioning planning process a very open and full consultation with non-governmental organisations, fishermen, environmental organisations and other interested parties was carried out and their views taken into consideration. Several workshops were held for external groups; decommissioning plans were published and made available to the public on a dedicated web site and also through the press. The MCP-01 Decommissioning Programme was approved by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy giving approval to leave the concrete substructure in place. Prior to giving this permit both authorities were obliged to consult the signatories to the OSPAR Convention with the result that none of the Contracting Parties submitted any objections. The removal of the topside facilities was completed in December 2008 where half of the weight was removed by a heavy lift vessel and the remaining by means of two excavators, cutting modules into suitable pieces for transport to shore for final disposal. The final heavy lift campaign took place in summer 2009 to remove the platform cranes and temporary equipment. An external riser that brought gas into the MCP-01 facility from other fields is planned to be removed in 2010. During the last four months of 2010 post removal activities such as debris cleaning within a 500m zone, seabed sampling and finally a trawl test are all planned. On the highest point of the concrete substructure permanent navigation aids are installed and these will be monitored onshore via satellite.
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Over the years the company has continued to play a major part in the environmental monitoring and assessment of the coastal dunes. In 2008, coastal erosion experts from around the world attended a three day symposium at St Fergus which was sponsored by all the terminal operators and members of the St Fergus Coastal Environmental Committee. Within and around the village of St Fergus, TOTAL E&P UK maintains the close relationship with the local community by supporting various projects and initiatives. In June 2009, pupils from St Fergus primary school enjoyed a trip to London Zoo as regional winners of the TOTAL Green School Awards initiative. Working with TOTAL E&P UK employees, the pupils award winning project focused on saving energy in the school and at home. In response to road safety concerns by St Fergus community council, TOTAL E&P UK provided a speed sign at the south side of the village which has helped reduce motorists speed as they travel onwards to the terminal and the north.
Over the past 32 years TOTAL E & P U K h a s w e l c o med t h o u sands of visitors to its gas terminal, among them families of employees, schoolchildren, students, government ministers, foreign delegations and royalty. As we look ahead to the future, TOTAL E&P UK will continue to place the local community at the heart of what we do and demonstrate how we are helping contribute to the social, economic and environmental health of the local area.
Photography: Franois Lacour, Ken Taylor Design by Mearns & Gill, Aberdeen Copyright TOTAL E&P UK Limited 2009 All rights reserved, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the permission of the copyright holder. TOTAL E&P UK Limited Crawpeel Road, Altens, Aberdeen AB12 3FG Tel: +44 (0) 1224 297000 Fax: +44 (0) 1224 298999 www.total.com