Oil field · UK

Maclure

Name: Maclure oil field monthly production
Creator: North Sea Transition Authority
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Maclure is an oil field in the northern North Sea, operated by NEO NEXT+ Energy. It was discovered in 1991 and produced from 2002 to 2024. Production has ceased. Over its life it produced about 43.1 million barrels of oil and condensate and 916 million cubic metres of gas.

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Production

Maclure produced about 43.1 million barrels of oil and condensate and 916 million cubic metres of gas between July 2002 and December 2024.

Oil and condensate, barrels a day, by month

Latest: 2,400 barrels a day in December 2024. Highest year: 2005, averaging 11,000 barrels a day. Highest month: January 2006.

Gas, million cubic metres a day, by month

Latest: 0.32 million cubic metres a day in December 2024. Highest year: 2024, averaging 0.25 million cubic metres a day. Highest month: October 2024.

Average production by year

Year	Oil and condensate, barrels a day	Gas, million m³ a day
2024	2,000	0.25
2023	2,000	0.22
2022	2,300	0.16
2021	2,200	0.12
2020	2,700	0.15
2019	3,100	0.13
2018	3,300	0.065
2017	4,900	0.081
2016	6,700	0.073
2015	8,100	0.11
2014	6,800	0.16
2013	3,400	0.082
2012	0	0
2011	440	0.022
2010	5,000	0.15
2009	7,200	0.13
2008	8,000	0.097
2007	5,900	0.1
2006	9,900	0.12
2005	11,000	0.1
2004	9,600	0.082
2003	8,900	0.077
2002 (Jul–Dec)	9,800	0.082

Field details

Status	Production ceased
Type	Oil field
Operator	NEO NEXT+ Energy
Partners	NEO NEXT+ Energy E&P North Sea UK Limited 38% TAQA Bratani Limited 37% Apache Beryl I Limited 17% Nobel Oil E&P North Sea Limited 7%
Original operator	BP
Discovered	January 1991 (well 9/19-8)
First production	July 2002
Water depth	115 m
Region	Northern North Sea
Wells inside the outline	3

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:

P103Apache Corporation, BP Exploration, Harbour Energy PLC, Ithaca Energy, NEO NEXT+ Energy, Nobel Upstream, TAQA Europa B.V.

Nearby

Fields within 10 km: Ballindalloch (0.3 km), Storr (1.6 km), Gryphon (1.6 km), Harding (2.2 km), Skene (3.9 km), Buckland (6.8 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.