Germany's Wintershall has started gas production from the unmanned mini-platform L6-B in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. "The first so called 'minimum facility' platform was built in just nine months and brought to its offshore location in June 2014. The advantage of this new generation of platforms is that they can be deployed in particularly shallow waters and can economically produce even from very small natural gas fields," Wintershall said. "Furthermore, they can cut down on costs thanks to the short time needed for construction and the simple installation. The costs for such a platform are less than half of a conventional satellite platform."
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