Qualla: Breagh Gas Field https://qualla.com/breagh-gas-field en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Breagh Gas Field https://qualla.com/breagh-gas-field Breagh Gas Field: Introduction https://qualla.com/breagh-gas-field/ Most British North Sea gas fields belong to the heroic age of offshore exploration - the 1960s and 1970s, when the southern North Sea was a frontier and the platforms still felt like adventures. Breagh is different. It came on production in 2013, decades after its neighbours, drawing gas from a deeper geological layer than the Permian sandstones that drove the original boom. Its export pipeline runs 100 kilometres west and arrives, of all places, at Coatham Sands - the long, low beach on the Teesside coast where North Sea waves come ashore against a wall of dunes. From there, ten more kilometres of pipe carries the gas inland to the Teesside Gas Processing Plant. A modern field, modern infrastructure, an older industrial coastline.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/8/r/breagh-gas-field-wp/u18r-breagh-gas-field-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Breagh Gas Field: Deeper Rock, Younger Field https://qualla.com/breagh-gas-field/ Breagh was discovered in July 1997 by well 42/13-2 - drilled by operators who were searching for what the southern North Sea industry called 'Carboniferous plays', a deeper and older horizon than the Rotliegend sandstones that had driven the original Britain-to-North-Sea gas boom...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/8/r/breagh-gas-field-wp/u18r-breagh-gas-field-deeper-rock-younger-field.mp3 0:06 2 full Breagh Gas Field: The Breagh Alpha Platform https://qualla.com/breagh-gas-field/ The Breagh Alpha platform was installed in October 2011 across Blocks 42/13a and 42/12a, designed to handle output from the western part of the field. It is an unattended installation in the southern North Sea style, with periodic helicopter visits for inspection and maintenance....

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/8/r/breagh-gas-field-wp/u18r-breagh-gas-field-the-breagh-alpha-platform.mp3 0:06 3 full Breagh Gas Field: The Pipeline to Coatham Sands https://qualla.com/breagh-gas-field/ The 100-kilometre export pipeline from Breagh comes ashore at Coatham Sands - a 3-mile beach that runs along the north side of the mouth of the River Tees, between Redcar and South Gare. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, important for shore birds and dune plants. It is...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/8/r/breagh-gas-field-wp/u18r-breagh-gas-field-the-pipeline-to-coatham-sands.mp3 0:06 4 full Breagh Gas Field: What Production Looks Like https://qualla.com/breagh-gas-field/ The numbers describe a field that ramped fast and then began its inevitable decline. After a quiet first year of 523 mcm in 2013 (only the last weeks of the year were producing), Breagh hit 30,175 mcm in 2014 and peaked at 38,221 mcm in 2015. Then the curve bent downward: 26,705 ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/8/r/breagh-gas-field-wp/u18r-breagh-gas-field-what-production-looks-like.mp3 0:06 5 full Breagh Gas Field: Teesside, North Sea Gas, and Climate https://qualla.com/breagh-gas-field/ The story of Breagh is also the story of Teesside, the industrial estuary that has spent two centuries shifting from iron to chemicals to gas to whatever comes next. The Teesside Gas Processing Plant, the older Wilton chemical works, the steel mills now mostly closed - all stitch...

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