The History

Today, the St Fergus Gas Terminal is an integral part of the local community. It is situated approximately 61km north of Aberdeen, alongside the small village of St Fergus. The challenge - in an area famous for its golden sand dunes - was to create a terminal to allow the vital gas resources to be brought ashore while protecting its coastline and marine environment.

In 1977, a reception terminal was built to receive and process gas from the Frigg field. The same year, British Gas, today known as Transco, built an adjacent terminal. It was designed to receive the processed gas and distribute it throughout the UK.

Since 1977, the terminal's facilities have been developed and expanded to cope with a changing mixture of gases and processing requirements. These changes have been necessary due to the discovery and development of additional North Sea fields. The most notable developments made to the plant were in 1987, which enabled the terminal to receive gas from the Alwyn field. Further developments in 1993 enabled St Fergus to receive gas from the Bruce field.

In Q2 2003 Total concluded a deal to transport gas from the Rhum field through its Frigg UK pipeline to the St Fergus Gas Terminal. Rhum, which is scheduled to start up in Q4 2005, will represent the largest gas field to feed into the Frigg UK pipeline since Bruce. As production from Bruce tails off, gas from Rhum will help to keep the pipeline full until 2007/08.

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