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St FergusGas TerminalNorthern North Sea / operations


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people/manage our uture


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the company/overview

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TOTAL E&P UK Limited is one o the largest oil and gas companies in

the UK and part o the global business o the TOTAL Group, the ourth

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 o oil and gas related activities,including exploration & production,

trading & shipping and reining &

marketing - as well as the manuacture

and supply o a comprehensive range o

chemical products.

The UK Upstream subsidiary, TOTAL E&P

UK, has its headquarters in Aberdeen,

Europes oil and gas capital, and is one o

the largest operators on the UK Continental Shel in terms o

production and reserves.

The company employs over 700 people, split between i ts on-

shore sites and its oshore acilities. Being part o an international

Group means that the workorce includes both local and

expatriate sta, drawn rom more than 30 countries.

With its aliates, TOTAL E&P UK owns and operates the Alwyn

North, Dunbar, Ellon, Grant, Nuggets, Forvie, Jura and Otter

elds in the Northern North Sea. It also operates the Elgin,

Franklin, West Franklin and Glenelg Fields in the Central Graben

Area o the Central North Sea.

The company and its UK aliates also have a number o 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 o Scotland, which receives and processes up to

20% o the UKs natural gas requirements rom over 20 ields in the UK

and Norway. It owns 100% o the Terminals acilities and 50% o the

Common Facilities, the remaind er o t he pla nt bein g 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 El

Exploration UK Limited and 22.5% by Gaz de France. EFOG has a 25.73

per cent share in SEAL.


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The welare o its workorce is

TOTAL E&P UKs top priority and

it conducts all its activities

taking ull account o the health

and saety o its people, ensuringthe saest possible working

environment and the prevention

o work-related illness. Our

goal is to achieve an accident-

ree work environment and

thinking Saety First is t he

responsibility o all sta at

their work locations, whether

onshore or oshore.

Best in class environmental

perormance is another major

goal.

We set measurable saety, health and environmental objectives

and work hard to improve perormance, making sure that all

our sta and contractors are ully equipped to understand and

implement our procedures. In addition, we work with partners,

suppliers, competitors, regulators and the general public indeveloping and testing our emergency plans, which we believe

help to set and raise industry standards.

We also encourage a broad culture o openness and

co-operation in the irm belie that this creates a positive

attitude towards the advancement in understanding and

improvement o perormance in the areas o saety, health

and environment all o which is reviewed and audited. Those

who contribute directly to improvements are recognised and

perormance evaluations or all employees include saety,

health and environmental aspects. This is particularly

important or those employees with managerial or supervisory

responsibilities.

producing safely/our top priority


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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 refecting a level o good business practice and underlines a

companys genuine commitment to sustainable development. We are very proudo this achievement and through the maintenance and improvement o our

management systems, hope to continue improving our environmental

perormance.

The Terminal also holds EMAS (Eco-Management Audit Scheme) accreditation, as

well as ISO 14001 certication, which represents the highest international standards

o environmental management. EMAS accreditation aims to recognise and reward

those who go above the minimum legal compliance and continuously improve their

environmental perormance, which is also a key requirement o ISO 14001

certiication.

2008 saw the launch o TOTAL E&P UKs Saety, Health and Environment (SHE)

Vision ve individual elements that work together to drive our SHE perormance.

These ve areas competence, supervision, SHE culture, risk assessment and

asset integrity will give us clear platorms on which to ocus our eorts in the

coming years.


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St Fergus/an essential hub

TOTAL E&P UKs St Fergus Gas Terminal covers over 220 acres and is located

close to the small village o St. Fergus, around 60 km North o Aberdeen, on the

North East coast o Scotland. There are three other terminals in the vicinity, operated

by ExxonMobil, Shell and National Grid. The National Grid Terminal receives gas

rom the other terminals and distributes it to the UKs National Grid System

The TOTAL E&P UK Terminal was originally constructed to receive and process

gas rom the Frigg eld, which straddled

the UK / Norway median line. Although this

very large gas eld ceased production in

2004, the St Fergus Terminal now receives

gas rom more than 20 other elds in both

the UK and Norway and supplies up to

18% o the UKs gas.

The gas is received at the Terminal through

the Frigg UK pipeline (known as FUKA)

and the Norwegian Vesterled pipeline and

is processed to National Grids entry speciication beore being

transported to the National Grid Terminal or onward distribution. In

the past, gas was also received via the Miller Transportation System

but the Miller Field ceased production in 2007 and the receiving

acilities will be decommissioned over time.

When developing the Terminal the challenge was to create a plant toacilitate the exploitation o vital North Sea gas resources yet protect

the unspoiled coastal and marine environment.

The rst stage was the building o the reception Terminal in 1977

to receive and process gas rom the Frigg eld. The same year the

adjacent British Gas Terminal, known today as the National Grid

Terminal, was built to receive the processed gas and to eed it into

the National Grid or distribution within the UK.

Since construction, the TOTAL E&P UKs Terminal acilities have

been developed and expanded to cope with the changing mixture o

gases and processing requirements rom additional elds. The most

notable developments made to the plant were in 1987 to receive

gas rom the Alwyn North eld and in 1993 to receive gas rom the

Bruce eld.

In 2005 TOTAL E&P UK concluded a deal to transport gas rom the

Rhum eld through its UK pipeline to the St Fergus Gas Terminal.

Other than TOTAL E&P UKs own Alwyn Area production this is one

o the largest eld in terms o volume through the FUKA pipeline

and Terminal system, which will help to maintain ecient use o the

pipeline over the coming years. Further negotiations in recent years

have successully resulted in gas rom other elds being brought to

shore to the St Fergus Terminal, including Tweedsmuir, Galley, Tartan

and Buzzard. The St Fergus acilities will continue to play a vital role

in bringing a large proportion o the UKs gas requirements into the

country or decades to come.


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The very large Frigg Field justied the building o the St Fergus Terminal

in 1977 but the ield 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 ecient and

economic route or gas into the UK market.

The pipeline system consists o two 32 pipelines, 362 km in length.

The UK line principally transports gas rom the Alwyn Area elds and

rom the Bruce area but with a number o other elds linked into it.

The Norwegian pipeline is known as Vesterled and was extended in

2001 to the Heimdal eld riser, in the Norwegian sector o the North

Sea. This line allows continued export o Norwegian gas to the UK

market through the St Fergus Terminal.

UK elds 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. Non-

operated elds 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 o production

rom Frigg eld, a new pipeline was

constructed connecting the 24 subsea

line rom the Alwyn Area, bypassing

the Frigg TP1 platorm and connect-

ing directly into the 32 UK pipeline.

This was completed in 2006.

St Fergus/the history


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MCP-01/decommissioning

The Maniold Compression Platorm 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 platorm installed in 1976 in 94m o water,

and came into operation in September 1977 when gas rom the Frigg eld

started to fow.

The original purpose o the platorm was to act as a compression and

interconnection platorm or the Frigg Transportation System consisting o

the 32 FUKA and 32 Vesterled pipelines which transported gas rom 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 our years, during the decommissioning planning process a very open

and ull consultation with non-governmental organisations, shermen,

environmental organisations and other interested parties was carried out

and their views taken into consideration. Several workshops were held

or 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 o Energy and Climate Change and the Norwegian Ministry o

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 o the

Contracting Parties submitted any objections.

The removal o the topside acilities was completed in December 2008

where hal o the weight was removed by a heavy lit vessel and the

remaining by means o two excavators, cutting modules into suitable

pieces or transport to shore or nal disposal. The nal heavy lit campaign

took place in summer 2009 to remove the platorm cranes and temporary

equipment. An external riser that brought gas into the MCP-01 acility rom

other elds is planned to be removed in 2010. During the last our months

o 2010 post removal activities such as debris cleaning within a 500m

zone, seabed sampling and nally a trawl test are all planned.

On the highest point o the concrete substructure permanent navigation

aids are installed and these will be monitored onshore via satellite.


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Processing gas/at St Fergus

Gas arriving at the St Fergus Terminal through both the UK and Vesterled

lines consists mainly o methane with heavier natural gas liquids such as

butane and propane plus some non-hydrocarbons. As the gas enters the

Terminal it is ed through a dedicated slug catcher where any condensates

or liquid hydrocarbons are separated and removed beore the remaining

gas enters the main processing system.

Gas is rst cooled to between minus10 degrees C and minus 50 degrees

C allowing any remaining liquids to be removed. Finally, the dry gas, madesuitable or our homes and workplaces is metered and then delivered to

the National Grid Terminal.

Liquids collected rom processing o the gas is either sent 24 km along the

coast to join the BP Forties Pipeline System at Cruden Bay or into the Shell

Gas terminal also at St Fergus, or onward delivery to Mossmorran.

On the southern edge o the St Fergus Terminal are dedicated

acilities or production rom the Miller Field. However, the BP-

operated Miller Field has now ceased production and the

acilities are in the process o being decommissioned.

Over recent years the Terminal acilities have been signicantly

upgraded to ensure its long uture and ecient handling ocurrent and uture production rom the North Sea and beyond,

including the anticipated gas production rom the West o

Shetlands in a ew years time.

Recent upgrades to the Terminal include the replacement o

the various process sotware systems, replacement o the two

stand-by power generation units, metering

and uninterruptible power supply systems

as well as improvements to lare and

secur i ty systems. There is a lso

an ex te nsive ongoing maintenance and

asset integrity programme to ensure

operational eiciency o the highest

standards.


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The terminal prides itsel on a site-wide holistic

approach to the environment which has secured

widespread recognition or its groundbreaking

eco-riendly initiatives, most recently as the

winner o the prestigious Vision in Business or the

Environment Scotland (VIBES) award in 2007.

Environmental protection has always been high

on the agenda. For example the sand dunes,

which had to be disturbed by the installation o

the subsea pipelines carrying the gas onshore,

were careully restored to their ormer state with

the help o local environmentalists. Special grass,

typical o the area, was planted to stabilise them.

For centuries the same birds and mammals have

visited the dunes including gulls, waders, skylarks

and snow buntings. As well as these traditional

visitors, the planting o additional trees around the

terminal have drawn new populations o birds to

the area.

St Fergus/30 years and beyond

In 2007, the St Fergus Gas Terminal celebrated 30 years since

rst gas was received. During that time, the 220 acre terminal

has played a vital role in meeting the nations energy needs,

handling approximately 20% o the UKs gas requirements.

In addition to receiving gas rom oshore, the terminal is also

responsible or processing the raw supply into a consumable

commodity, ready or distribution via the National Grid system.

The 30th anniversary o rst gas provided an excellent opportunity

to promote the work o the terminal to local residents and

members o the community at an Open Day on 15 September

2007. The event provided a rare opportunity to tour the terminal

and to learn rst hand about St Fergus operations.

But the infuence o corporate social responsibility reaches out

beyond the terminals perimeter ence. The unstinting

commitment o employees to seek greener ways o working

at St Fergus means local businesses and the neighbouring

community have been in partnership with TOTAL E&P UK over

the past three decades.


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Over the years the company has continued to play a major part in the

environmental monitoring and assessment o the coastal dunes. In

2008, coastal erosion experts rom around the world attended a three

day symposium at St Fergus which was sponsored by all the terminal

operators and members o the St Fergus Coastal Environmental

Committee.

Within and around the village o St Fergus, TOTAL E&P UK maintains

the close relationship with the local community by supporting various

projects and initiatives.

In June 2009, pupils rom St Fergus primary school enjoyed a trip to

London Zoo as regional winners o the TOTAL Green School Awards

initiative. Working with TOTAL E&P UK employees, the pupils award

winning project ocused on saving energy in the school and at home.

In response to road saety concerns by St Fergus community council,

TOTAL E&P UK provided a speed sign at the south side o 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 UK has welcomed

thousands o visitors to its gas

terminal, among them amilies

o employees, schoolchildren,

students, government ministers,

oreign delegations and royalty.

As we look ahead to the uture,

TOTAL E&P UK will continue to

place the local community at

the heart o what we do and

demonstrate how we are help-

ing contribute to the social,

economic and environmental

health o the local area.


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Photography: Franois Lacour, Ken Taylor

Design by Mearns & Gill, Aberdeen

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