Production and Reserves
Production grew from 4,000 to 6,000 barrels per day (950 m3/d) (bpd) by 1984 and eventually peaked at 110,000 bbl/d (17,000 m3/d) in 1997; by 2002 this had declined to 50,000 bbl/d (7,900 m3/d). In 2002 it was estimated that the field contained reserves of 65.40 million tonnes of oil (479.6 million barrels), 4.73 million tonnes of natural gas liquids and 1.42 billion cubic metres of natural gas that will last until 2020 and 2025 respectively.
Oil is also transported to Wytch Farm for processing from two smaller Dorset oilfields, Wareham (discovered in 1964) by pipeline and Kimmeridge (discovered in 1959) by road.
Oil is piped about 91 kilometres (57 mi) from Wytch Farm via Fawley to a terminal on the far side of Southampton Water at Hamble, for export by tanker. Natural Gas (methane) is piped to Sopley, north of Christchurch, for use in the national domestic gas supply network. Smaller quantities of liquefied petroleum gas are transported by road. A rail terminal at Wytch Farm connecting to the Swanage Railway between Corfe Castle, Dorset and Wareham is now closed and mothballed.
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