Abstract
As the original giant fields of the East Shetland Basin enter their decline period there has been, as with any mature asset, the challenge of managing the pipeline system's potential and cost per barrel. One way to maintain this potential is to keep the system full by bringing other parties' volumes in to take the growing ullage. The Ninian Field, Ninian Pipeline System and Sullom Voe Terminal are, amongst other measures, benefitting from the advances of technology which have moved undeveloped fields from the marginal to the economic, and hence opened up a new generation of fields to use the pipeline system and enhance its value. At the same time as this, rationalisation of the process facilities at Sullom Voe, Europe's largest oil and liquified gas terminal, has as its aim to maintain the terminals efficiency and economic viability.
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