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NEO Energy has been given the approval by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy for the Victoria Field Pipelines and Installations Decommissioning Programmes. The approved decommissioning programmes document is available below. A copy is also available on the OPRED website.

About Victoria

The Victoria gas field lies in the UKCS Block 49/17a in the southern North Sea, with the water depth along the pipeline varying between 21 to 27 m Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT).

The existing Victoria subsea infrastructure is a tie-back to the Harbour Energy owned Viking BD skid. Production from Victoria commenced in October 2008, with gas being exported to the Theddlethorpe terminal via the ConocoPhillips operated Viking B complex. The Cessation of Production (COP) was approved in January 2016.

The Victoria subsea system consists of:

• One subsea production well complete with protective structure;
• One production gas flowline;
• One subsea umbilical designed to provide hydraulic control, electrical signal and chemical injection cores;

Two pipeline end valve skids (one at Victoria field location and one adjacent to the Viking BD platform location) to provide flowline isolations, tie-in points, and control tie-ins (both structures are piled).