Discovery and Development
The field was discovered in 1987, when oil was found in Eocene at a depth of 1,850 metres (6,070 ft). The abundance of napthalmic acid in the oil however made the development unattractive at the time. The crude is heavy and naphthenic and is generally of a lower value compared to other North Sea oils. Consequently the decision was made to export it by tanker rather than co-mingle it in a pipeline. The oil from the Harding field therefore requires to be stored offshore. The selected development solution was a heavy-duty steel jack-up production unit based on a proprietary design by Technip Geoproduction resting on a concrete gravity base which had storage for 550,000 barrels (87,000 m3) of oil.
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