''Gorm'' is a
natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbon ...
and
oilfield
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by the presence ...
in the Danish Sector of
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...
that was discovered in 1971. It is the largest oilfield exploited by
Denmark
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. The field consists of five platforms and is operated by
TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and one of the seven supermajor oil companies. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and ...
. The facilities include two
wellhead
A wellhead is the component at the surface of an oil or gas well that provides the structural and pressure-containing interface for the drilling and production equipment.
The primary purpose of a wellhead is to provide the suspension point and ...
platforms and several processing platforms. About of
crude oil from the nearby ''Rolf'' oil field are processed on the ''Gorm'' platforms.
The installations developed for the Gorm field were:
An oil leak occurred in the field on 2 March 2011.
See also
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Tyra field
Tyra Field is the largest gas condensate field in the Danish Sector of the North Sea. It was discovered in 1968 and production started in 1984.
The field is owned by Dansk Undergrunds Consortium, a partnership between Total, Noreco and Nordsof ...
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Dan oil field
References
External links
''The Gorm Centre'' Danish Energy Agency The Danish Energy Agency (Danish: Energistyrelsen) was established in 1976 as an agency of the Danish Ministry of Transport. It was part of the Ministry of Environment and Energy from 1994 to 2001. In 2007 it came under the newly created Danish Mini ...
Natural gas fields in Denmark
Oil fields of Denmark
North Sea energy
Maersk Oil
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