

Cygnus Alpha consists of three bridge-linked platforms: a wellhead drilling center, a processing-utilities unit and living quarters-central control room. Part of the existing Cygnus field development plan, the tenth well holds the potential to provide enough additional gas to heat 200,000 UK homes this winter. Upon completion of the well, Cygnus will be capable of producing enough gas for about 2 million UK households, the company said. In a few planets, especially those far away from the Sun, the amount of ice is greater than the gas content, which is why they are called ice giants. Distant Ice Structure, rock and metal core, water, methane, and ammonia oceans, gaseous hydrogen Temperature (Planetary Extremes), Day -370F (-223C) Night. Moving from closest to Neptune to furthest out, their names are Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, S/2004 N1 (which has yet to receive an official name), Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede.

Each of the moons is named for a mythological Greek water deity. Completion of the tenth well on the field is expected in this year’s fourth quarter.ĭrilling is being carried out by Borr Drilling’s Prospector 1 jack up rig.Ĭygnus is the largest natural gas discovery in the southern North Sea in over 30 years and is the largest single producing gas field in the UK, typically exporting over 250 MMscfd of gas. Neptune has 14 moons, the latest discovered in 2013. Neptune Energy started an infill drilling campaign at Cygnus gas field in the southern UK North Sea. It is also marginally the smallest of the gas giants in the Solar System, after Uranus, although its volume is still 60 times greater than that of Earth and it.
