Gas field · UK

Caister Bunter

Name: Caister Bunter gas field monthly production
Creator: North Sea Transition Authority
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Caister Bunter is a gas field in the southern North Sea, operated by Harbour Energy PLC. It was discovered in 1968 and produced from 1993 to 2014. Production has ceased. Over its life it produced about 3.2 billion cubic metres of gas.

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Production

Caister Bunter produced about 444,000 barrels of oil and condensate and 3.2 billion cubic metres of gas between November 1993 and April 2014.

Gas, million cubic metres a day, by month

Latest: under 0.001 million cubic metres a day in April 2014. Highest year: 1995, averaging 1.1 million cubic metres a day. Highest month: January 1999.

Oil and condensate, barrels a day, by month

Latest: 0 barrels a day in April 2014. Highest year: 2003, averaging 180 barrels a day. Highest month: September 2000.

Average production by year

Year	Oil and condensate, barrels a day	Gas, million m³ a day
2014 (Jan–Apr)	0	under 0.001
2013	15	under 0.001
2012	25	0.03
2011	1	under 0.001
2010	39	0.076
2009	77	0.19
2008	160	0.19
2007	56	0.074
2006	20	0.034
2005	92	0.15
2004	120	0.15
2003	180	0.27
2002	130	0.63
2001	140	1
2000	110	0.84
1999	0	0.86
1998	17	0.64
1997	34	0.94
1996	0	0.86
1995	0	1.1
1994	0	0.74
1993 (Nov–Dec)	0	0.27

Field details

Status	Production ceased
Type	Gas field
Operator	Harbour Energy PLC
Partners	Premier Oil E&P UK Limited 40% Chrysaor (U.K.) Beta Limited 30% Ithaca (NE) UKCS Limited 21% Chrysaor Production (U.K.) Limited 9%
Original operator	Total
Discovered	January 1968 (well 44/23-1)
First production	October 1993
Water depth	41 m
Region	Southern North Sea
Wells inside the outline	14

Platforms and installations

No platforms or production ships are recorded on the field or within 2 km of it.

Licences

The field lies in this current licence:

P2670Hartshead Resources Ltd

Nearby

Fields within 10 km: Caister Carboniferous (0 km), Watt (3.9 km), Murdoch (4.5 km), Ketch (5.8 km), Hunter (8.6 km), Kelvin (9.3 km).

Sources

Production: NSTA, UKCS field production reports (PPRS), monthly to July 2026. Field details, platforms, licences and wells: NSTA open data, as on the atlas map. Contains information provided by the North Sea Transition Authority and/or other third parties. Used under the NSTA Open User Licence.

Offshore Data Atlas converts the reported volumes to barrels and cubic metres a day (one cubic metre is 6.29 barrels). UK gas figures are all the gas produced, including gas used offshore as fuel, flared or put back into the reservoir.

Caister Bunter's production adds up the NSTA's reports for Caister.