Angus Energy has announced that Lincolnshire County Council has granted permission for its application to reconfigure the layout of the Saltfleetby B Site originally envisaged and permitted by the extant planning permission N/158/00804/20 which was announced by RNS on 12 June 2020 and thereby completing the local authority permissions required for Saltfleetby to achieve first gas.

SALTFLEETBY GAS FIELD

The Saltfleetby Gas Field is located onshore UK in licence PEDL005, East Lincolnshire. The field was discovered in 1996 and produced gas from both the Westphalian Sandstones and Namurian reservoirs and was, upon discovery, the largest onshore gas field in the UK with a GIIP of 114 BCF. Production began in 1999 at rates exceeding 50 MMScf per day and produced gas, water, and condesnate was piped via a 10” pipeline to the nearby Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal (TGT) where it was processed and sent into the National Grid. Eight wells and several sidetracks have been drilled on the site.

In 2017, TGT was shut down leaving the field stranded with nowhere to process the produced gas and no direct export route.  Angus Energy acquired a 51% interest and operatorship in the field in late 2019/early 2020 and intends to continue production  from the field following successful reconnection to the National Grid.

The keys parts of the project are to install processing facilities on the existing Saltfleetby site to ensure gas is at the required  pressure, temperature, and specification to be sent to the National Grid, and to install a short export pipeline extension of some  750m to connect the field directly to the National Transmission System. Work is underway to complete these projects with the  aim to bring the field onstream in early 2021.

In August 2020, Angus Energy entered into an off-take agreement for the entire production from the Saltfleetby Gas Field with Shell Energy Europe. 

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