The Mercury and Neptune Fields, Blocks 47/9b, 47/4b, 47/5a, 42/29, UK North Sea
AbstractThe Mercury and Neptune Gas Fields, discovered in 1983 and 1985 respectively, are located on the NW margin of the southern North Sea. Both fields have reservoirs in the Permian Lower Leman Sandstone Formation of the Rotliegend Group. The Mercury Field, at Rotliegend level, is an elongate, southerly tilting horst block. It trends NW-SE and is bounded by reverse faults. The Neptune Field, at top reservoir level is a faulted, four-way dip closed structure that is elongated in a NW-SE direction. The combined gas-in-place for the two fields is estimated at 465 BCF with recoverable reserves of 368 BCF. Development drilling on Mercury commenced in early 1999 and on Neptune it is scheduled to start in Q3 1999. The maximum gas export rate will be 250 MMSCFD with first gas anticipated in November 1999.