Ready to be extracted via a single subsea well, Shell's Victory gas field in the UK North Sea will help maintain domestically produced gas for Britain’s homes, businesses and power generation.
Approximately 47 km north-west of the Shetland Islands, the Victory field has started production for Shell UK Limited to reach the Shetland Gas Plant via an existing pipeline network connencted to the subsea well. Utilising the existing infrastructure will reduce operational emissions. The gas will be piped to further travel the Scottish mainland at St Fergus near Peterhead, where it will be fed into the national gas network.
Peak production is estimated at around 150 million standard cubic feet per day of gas (approximately 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day) at full capacity, which is equivalent to heat nearly 900,000 homes per year. Most of the field’s recoverable gas is expected to be extracted by the end of the decade.
As older gas fields reach the end of production, Victory can help bridge the gap while also reducing the UK's reliance on imports.
"Gas fields like Victory play a crucial role in the UK’s energy security, and the country will rely on them for decades to come. They provide an essential fuel we need now, and act as a partner to intermittent renewables as we move through the energy transition,” Shell UK Upstream Senior Vice President, Simon Roddy said. “By developing fields like Victory next to existing infrastructure, we are making sure our production in the UK North Sea remains cost competitive and reduces operational emissions.”
