Type:
Gas
Facility:
Production
Water Depth:
39
Installed:
1997
meters
Block:
K-Block
Design:
Fixed steel
Sub Structure:
630
Topsides Wgt:
673
tonnes
tonnes
Intro
A fixed normally unmanned gas wellhead and manifold platform in the K05 area of the Dutch North Sea. Installed in 1997, it serves as a satellite node within the K05/K05a gas field cluster, routing well fluids toward the central processing hub at K5-P and other collection points. It does not house major processing modules.
Field
The K05/K05a gas fields are conventional offshore gas accumulations in the Netherlands sector, located ~115-km northwest of Den Helder. Discovered in the late 20th century and brought onstream from the early 1990s, these fields produce gas from shallow Permian Rotliegend sandstones. Reservoirs have multiple satellite platforms tied back to central facilities.
Facilities
K5EN/C hosts wellheads and manifolds for a small number of production wells. Unlike central platforms, it lacks large separation trains, compressors, or dehydration skids; produced gas flows via subsea flowlines and risers to K5-P and adjacent processing installations. The platform’s utility systems are sized for unmanned operation, including power for instrumentation and safety systems, emergency shutdown valves, and remote control/monitoring. Flow control and subsea tie-ins manage well outputs and ensure safe hand-off to central processing. Gas exports from the broader K05 area proceed through integrated subsea pipelines into the Dutch export network.
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