Offshore staff

(Theddlethorpe, UK) The platform for RWE Dea's first operated development in the UK sector, Cavendish, was recently loaded onto a barge at a Heerema fabrication yard in The Netherlands. The six well-slot, minimum facilities structure will be located in southern gas basin block 43/19a.

Produced gas will be treated initially at the platform, then pumped through a new 45-km long, 10-in. pipeline connecting to the Caister Murdoch trunkline system, landing eventually at the gas terminal in Theddlethorpe on England's east coast. First gas from Cavendish is expected this fall.

5-6-06