The world’s first floating production unit and the North Sea’s first production facility was in the Argyll field in the UK sector of the North Sea.
JL Daeschler made a presentation on the project at Offshore Europe 1977. See the attached summary.
As JL highlights in the attachment, the press focused on the the perceived negative – the rather high water cut. JL addressed the water production issue by carefully designing the deck handling facilities.
Per JL, “we had some fun for 2 years getting the separator to work in +/- 3 degree pitch and roll, then had the additional water handling challenge.”
The team worked it out. JL can laugh about the challenges now. He proudly notes that “the field produced for 20 years + thanks to evolving technology and first class engineers and contractors.” Such was the life of a pioneering offshore engineer.
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