Over 700 wells have been drilled in the Baltic Sea and about 40 significant accumulations of crude oil and natural gas have been discovered. This is an incomplete listing of some of these offshore fields.
+Oil and gas fields of the Baltic SeaField nameCountryTypeDiscoveredReservesInfrastructureCo-ordinatesStart upStatus Schwedeneck-See oil fieldGermanyOil + gas19782.5 million tonnesTwo concrete gravity platforms A & B 54°35'10"N 10°05'34"E 54°33'41"N 09°58'48"E1984Demolished 2003B3 oil fieldPolandOil + gas198111 million barrels oil
168 million m3 gasConverted jack-up, oil by tanker, gas pipeline55°28''N 18°10'E1992ProductionB4PolandGas19811,972 million m32025-27DesignB6PolandGas19811,793 million m3 2025DesignB8 oil fieldPolandOil + gas19833.5 million tonnes oil
432 million m3 gasConverted jack-up, oil to B3, gas to CHP plant55°24.0’N 18°43.3’E2006ProductionB21 gas fieldPolandGas2013261.23 million m355.168°N 17.6758°EŁebaPolandExplorationGotlandiaPolandExplorationRozewiePolandExplorationD2Kaliningrad (Russia)Oil2030?AppraisalD6 Kravtsovskoye oilfield Kaliningrad (Russia)Oil19839.1 million tonnesOil pipeline to shore55°20'N 20°34'E2004ProductionD29Kaliningrad (Russia)Oil20152.126 million tonnes2030?AppraisalD33Kaliningrad (Russia)Oil201521.2 million tonnesFixed platform2025?ConstructionD41Kaliningrad (Russia)Oil20152.003 million tonnesDrilled from onshore2019ProductionE6LatviaOil19842-3 million tonnesE7LatviaOil
Challenges A particular feature of the Baltic Sea that affects the development of offshore oil and gas facilities are the large number of munitions and chemical weapons in some areas of the seabed. It is estimated that 80,000 mines plus other German high explosives were dumped in the Baltic after the war. There are also 300,000 tonnes of chemical weapons including arsenic compounds and mustard gas.Mihkel Veiderma (2005) ‘Natural gas in the Baltic region' given at the Assembly of the Baltic States, 26 November 2005
See also
List of oil and gas fields of the North Sea
References