Type:
Gas
Facility:
Production
Water Depth:
25
Installed:
1994
meters
Block:
48/14
Design:
Fixed steel
Sub Structure:
860
Topsides Wgt:
900
tonnes
tonnes
Intro
Galleon PG is a fixed unmanned wellhead platform in Block 48/20a in the Southern North Sea, commissioned in 1998 as part of the Galleon gas development. It primarily handles dry natural gas from the Galleon field and provides minimal processing before export. The platform is remotely controlled and tied physically via pipelines to the Clipper complex for compression and export to shore.
Field
The Galleon field lies in the Sole Pit area of the Southern North Sea, producing conventional dry gas from Permian-aged reservoirs (Lower Permian Leman Sandstone). Discovered in 1969 and brought onstream in the mid-1990s, it forms part of a cluster of small to medium southern North Sea gas accumulations. Development has targeted recovery via multiple wells drilled from PN and PG installations tied back to central processing hubs.
Facilities
Galleon PG hosts multiple horizontal gas-producing wells tied into its normally unattended platform structure. Wellheads are manifolded, and fluids are metered and routed through a dedicated subsea pipeline to the larger Clipper complex for processing, compression, and export. There are no substantial separation modules on PG itself; it functions mainly as a gathering and metering point before export. Control and monitoring are undertaken remotely from Clipper, with power supplied via subsea umbilicals. Utilities include basic corrosion inhibition, methanol injection for hydrate control, and remote instrumentation links. Produced gas flows into the Sole Pit export system and onward to the Bacton Gas Terminal via the Clipper processing complex, which provides dehydration, compression, and dehydration to meet export specifications. The simple structural design and absence of significant processing plant reflect its role as a satellite manifold platform within the Southern North Sea gas infrastructure.
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