Type:
Condensate
Facility:
Production
Water Depth:
92
Installed:
2012
meters
Block:
29/5b
Design:
Fixed steel
Sub Structure:
2800
Topsides Wgt:
2919
tonnes
tonnes
Intro
Franklin West WHP is a normally unmanned wellhead platform in the West Franklin area of the Elgin-Franklin complex in the UK North Sea Central Graben. Installed in 2014 as part of West Franklin Phase-2 development, it supports gas and condensate production tied back to the Elgin‡Franklin processing system.
Field
The West Franklin field is an ultra high-pressure, high-temperature adjacent extension of the Franklin gas condensate reservoir within the broader Elgin-Franklin complex in the Central Graben. Wells target Fulmar sandstone reservoirs developed after initial Franklin production.
Facilities
The West Franklin WHP sits on a steel jacket in about ~93-m water depth and houses production well slots (~3) without permanent accommodation. It gathers multiphase fluids which are piped via bundled subsea pipelines and umbilicals to the Elgin complex wellhead platforms and onward to the PUQ for processing. Facilities include well Xmas trees, flow control and safety systems, chemical injection for flow assurance, and local power for controls. It lacks significant processing; primary well fluids flow via pipelines to central separators at the Elgin PUQ. Control and emergency shutdown systems link back to the main control via fiber/umbilical. Structural designs adhere to North Sea environmental criteria with helideck and minimal workover support provisions.
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