The Brent System pipeline transports oil from the North Sea oilfields via Cormorant Alpha to the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland, Scotland. Since 3 August 2009, it is operated by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company replacing the previous operator Royal Dutch Shell. The Brent system is jointly owned by 21 companies.

Oil transportation system

Oil is transported from 20 oilfields, including:

Pipelines

The Cormorant A to Sullom Voe pipeline is 36 in diameter steel (API 5L X60) of 147 km in length. It has capacity of 100000 oilbbl/d. The Brent C to Cormorant A pipeline is 30 inches (760 mm) in diameter and 35 kilometres (22 mi) long. Other oil pipelines are: The specification for crude oil transported in the Brent system is as follows:

Production

Oil production from the Brent field from 1976 to 1983 was as follows (1000 barrels): { "version": 2, "width": 400, "height": 200, "data": [ { "name": "table", "values": [ { "x": 1976, "y": 766 }, { "x": 1977, "y": 9484 }, { "x": 1978, "y": 28962 }, { "x": 1979, "y": 65323 }, { "x": 1980, "y": 51154 }, { "x": 1981, "y": 84165 }, { "x": 1982, "y": 118073 }, { "x": 1983, "y": 146079 } ] } ], "scales": [ { "name": "x", "type": "ordinal", "range": "width", "zero": false, "domain": { "data": "table", "field": "x" } }, { "name": "y", "type": "linear", "range": "height", "nice": true, "domain": { "data": "table", "field": "y" } } ], "axes": [ { "type": "x", "scale": "x" }, { "type": "y", "scale": "y" } ], "marks": [ { "type": "rect", "from": { "data": "table" }, "properties": { "enter": { "x": { "scale": "x", "field": "x" }, "y": { "scale": "y", "field": "y" }, "y2": { "scale": "y", "value": 0 }, "fill": { "value": "steelblue" }, "width": { "scale": "x", "band": "true", "offset": -1 } } } } ] }

Decommissioning

Shell UK Limited propose to decommission the Brent Field pipelines in the mid-2020s.