Oil field · UK

Don South West

Name: Don South West oil field monthly production
Creator: North Sea Transition Authority
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Don South West is an oil field in the northern North Sea, operated by EnQuest PLC. It was discovered in 1980 and produced from 2009 to 2021. Production has ceased. Over its life it produced about 29.4 million barrels of oil and condensate.

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Production

Don South West produced about 29.4 million barrels of oil and condensate and 168 million cubic metres of gas between March 2010 and March 2021.

Oil and condensate, barrels a day, by month

Latest: 32 barrels a day in March 2021. Highest year: 2011, averaging 14,000 barrels a day. Highest month: August 2010.

Gas, million cubic metres a day, by month

Latest: under 0.001 million cubic metres a day in March 2021. Highest year: 2011, averaging 0.072 million cubic metres a day. Highest month: September 2011.

Average production by year

Year	Oil and condensate, barrels a day	Gas, million m³ a day
2021 (Jan–Mar)	500	0.003
2020	1,200	0.008
2019	2,400	0.017
2018	3,100	0.02
2017	3,700	0.022
2016	3,800	0.025
2015	5,300	0.034
2014	8,200	0.052
2013	11,000	0.062
2012	12,000	0.061
2011	14,000	0.072
2010 (Mar–Dec)	19,000	0.1

Field details

Status	Production ceased
Type	Oil field
Operator	EnQuest PLC
Partners	EnQuest Heather Limited 60% Ithaca Oil and Gas Limited 40%
Original operator	Petrofac
Discovered	December 1980 (well 211/18a-22)
First production	June 2009
Water depth	167 m
Region	Northern North Sea
Wells inside the outline	10

Platforms and installations

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

Nearby

Fields within 10 km: Ythan (0 km), Don (0.2 km), Conrie (0.3 km), Penguin East (3.6 km), Thistle (3.9 km), West Don (4.3 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.