Shell, Esso keen to offload Corvette

Shell UK and Esso Exploration and Production UK want to dispose of their interests in the Corvette gas field in the UK southern North Sea, according to brokers Indigo Pool, a division of Schlumberger.

Sep 1st, 2010

Offshore staff

HOUSTON -- Shell UK and Esso Exploration and Production UK want to dispose of their interests in the Corvette gas field in the UK southern North Sea, according to brokers Indigo Pool, a division of Schlumberger.

Corvette is in license P.007, block 49/24a and license P.016, block 49/23a, close to the Bacton processing terminal on the east English coast. The field has been developed by a platform, with potential for re-use in an offshore underground gas storage project.

09/01/2010

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