Qualla: Easington Catchment Area

Easington Catchment Area: Introduction

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Apollo, Artemis, Minerva, Neptune, Mercury, Whittle, Wollaston. The Easington Catchment Area reads like a roll call of Greek deities, Roman goddesses, a Georgian chemist and the man who invented the turbojet engine - and that's exactly what it is. A group of natural gas fields in UK Blocks 42 and 47, twenty-five kilometres or more off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast, all piped back through a riser tower to the Easington Gas Terminal on land. The mythological naming gives the operations centre a curious dignity: somewhere out under the Southern North Sea, in cold dark water, gas is flowing from a well named Artemis to a platform named Minerva.

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Easington Catchment Area: The First Phase: Neptune and Mercury

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Easington Catchment Area project was developed in two phases, the first costing £150 million and centred on the Neptune and Mercury fields. Neptune, in Blocks 47/4b and 47/5a, was discovered in 1985. Mercury, in Block 47/9b, came two years earlier in 1983. Both lay in the Per...

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Easington Catchment Area: The Riser Tower at Cleeton

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

From Neptune, the co-mingled fluids of both fields ran sixteen inches wide along the seabed to a dedicated riser tower built onto the Cleeton installation. There the gas was separated, dried and metered before joining the BP Cleeton-Dimlington pipeline system. Methanol - to preve...

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Easington Catchment Area: Phase Two and the Mythology

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The second phase came in the early 2000s under BG Group's majority stake, and brought the field names that give the Catchment Area its character. Apollo and Artemis - the Greek twins, brother and sister, sun and moon - were developed as subsea production systems and tied back to ...

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Easington Catchment Area: Onshore at Easington

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

All of this gas arrives at Easington Gas Terminal on the Yorkshire coast, a sprawling industrial site that handles a meaningful fraction of UK gas demand. The Easington Catchment Area is now operated by Perenco, a private French-British producer that has steadily bought up mature...

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