25-09-09 E.ON Ruhrgas is installing its first operated gas production platform in the UK southern North Sea, which is expected to process gas from Babbage field in April 2010.
The Babbage platform took 10 months to complete; the field is 80 km off the coast of the UK in 42 m of water. It will produce 2 mm cmpd of gas. The field is expected to produce more than 5 bn cm of gas. The total investment in the development of the Babbage field will amount to more than EUR 300 mm.

E.ON and partners plan to drill five wells in the field in two phases until 2011. The Babbage reservoir lies about 3,200 m below the seabed. The gas will be transported to West Sole and onward to the Dimlington terminal at Humberside.
Babbage interests are E.ON 47 %, Dana Petroleum 40 %, and Centrica Resources 13 %.