Type:
Oil
Facility:
Production
Water Depth:
43
Installed:
1987
meters
Block:
5505/17
Design:
Fixed steel
Sub Structure:
1690
Topsides Wgt:
1970
tonnes
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Intro
Dan FA is a bridge-linked wellhead platform in the Dan oil field in the Danish North Sea, installed in 1986 as part of the Dan F complex. It provides drilling and production support with well slots feeding into central processing on Dan FC. It produces oil and associated gas, exporting via integrated pipelines into regional hubs. The platform is connected by bridges to Dan FB and the Dan FC processing hub.
Field
The Dan field, discovered in 1971, lies in the Danish North Sea (Block 5505/17). It produces oil with associated gas from Upper Cretaceous chalk reservoirs, historically significant as Denmark’s first producing offshore field, brought onstream in 1972. Dan is a large multi-platform complex with satellite tie-ins.
Facilities
Dan FA hosts multiple well slots for production and injection wells drilled into the chalk reservoir. It lacks independent processing; instead, multiphase fluids are routed via bridge and subsea pipeline to Dan FC for primary separation and conditioning. Gas and condensate from the Dan F complex are handled at Dan FC, where three-phase separation, gas dehydration and stabilization occur. Power systems on Dan FA are limited to well control, safety, and communication utilities; the platform relies on Dan FC’s main power and processing utilities. Subsea pipelines and riser manifolds link to the broader Dan F complex and onward to export infrastructure: oil is transported to shore via the Gorm E export system, and gas is pre-treated at Dan FC before export to the Tyra East processing hub. Utility systems include remote control interfaces, emergency power, fire and gas detection, and instrumentation linking to the field control network for integrated operations.
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