By Energy People. Compiled with AI assistance from linked sources.
Completion of a new gas pipeline at Sullom Voe has added an export option for the Clair field west of Shetland, according to statements from bp reported by Energy Voice on 9 November.
The approximately 1.3km, 10-inch connection links the EnQuest-operated terminal with the Shetland Islands Regional Gas Export system, operated by North Sea Midstream Partners. It joins infrastructure that previously operated separately.
bp approved the investment in 2023. Its Europe and Atlantic Africa senior vice-president, Doris Reiter, said the completed connection strengthens the long-term export route for Clair gas and provides capacity for future developments. The North Sea Transition Authority also welcomed the additional route and its contribution to infrastructure resilience.
The milestone concerns export infrastructure. It does not itself constitute approval or a final investment decision for a new field development. The immediate Scottish connection is the terminal and pipeline on Shetland; the benefits described by the operator concern gas produced west of the islands.
Sources: Energy Voice, including named bp, NSTA and EnQuest statements, 9 November 2026; Offshore Energies UK’s public response.
Employer information: bp company profile.
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Image credit: File photograph of the tank farm at Sullom Voe oil terminal, Shetland, 28 September 2009; not the newly completed pipeline. john bateson / Geograph via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
