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    The Forties Oil Field is the second largest oil field in the North Sea, after the Clair oilfield, which is located 110 miles east of Aberdeen. It was...
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    was opened in 1975 to transport oil from the Forties Oil Field, the UK’s first major offshore oil field. The Forties Unity installation was installed...
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    Roaring Forties Forties Oil Field Hill, P.J., and Wood, G.V., 1980, Geology of the Forties Field, U.K. Continental Shelf, North Sea, in Giant Oil and Gas...
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    This list of oil and gas fields of the North Sea contains links to oil and natural gas reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In terms of the oil industry, "North...
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    be a dry hole in May 1970, followed by the discovery of the giant Forties Oil Field in October 1970. The following year, Shell Expro discovered the giant...
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    Iolair (category Oil platforms)
    to support and service oil platforms in the North Sea and served as an emergency support vessel (ESV) in the Forties Oil Field. Since 2000 it has been...
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    list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present. The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all...
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    Montrose oil field is a significant crude oil producing field in the UK sector of the central North Sea, 210 km east of Aberdeen. Production of oil started...
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    Normally unmanned installation (category Oil platforms)
    Unmanned (or Unattended) Installation (NUI) is a type of automated offshore Oil/Gas platform designed to be primarily operated remotely, without the constant...
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  • Matt Linning (category British businesspeople in the oil industry)
    engineer, and was project director for the BP Forties Oil Field in the 1970s; this field is the largest oil field in the North Sea. He studied electrical engineering...
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