Oct 1, 2025
Oner and developer of large-scale midstream oil and gas infrastructure North Sea Midstream Partners (NSMP) has received first gas from Shell’s Victory field in the UK North Sea.
The start-up of the Victory field marks the first new gas from the West of Shetland since 2017 and the first new gas field into the St Fergus Gas Terminal since the Martin Linge field in 2021.
Shell, the full owner and operator of the field, started production on September 30. The peak production is estimated at around 150 million standard cubic feet per day of gas, or around 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day at full capacity.
Gas from the Victory field will be transported via NSMP’s 234km Shetland Islands Regional Gas Export (SIRGE) pipeline into the Frigg UK Association (FUKA) pipeline.
As one of the UK’s most significant subsea infrastructure assets, the FUKA pipeline has the capacity to carry 36 million cubic meters of gas per day.
From there, Victory gas will be delivered to the
