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Rob Roy (Amerada Hess)
Offshore oil field in production.
Block and licence number: 15/21a, P.218 & 15/21b, P.588
Map reference: Plate 8
Grid reference: 0° 07’ E  58° 11’ N
Licensees and company interest in field (%) at end of February 2002:
Amerada Hess Ltd 76.56
Kerr-McGee Oil (UK) plc 19.70
Premier Pict Petroleum Ltd 3.75
Date of discovery: May 1984
Production start: July 1989
Operator’s estimate of:  
Recoverable reserves originally present : Oil: (million tonnes) 14.54
Gas: (billion cubic metres) 1.34 
First year of peak production: 1991
Peak production : Oil: (million tonnes per year) 1.78
Gas: billion cubic metres per year) 0.24
Water depth: 137m
Gravity: 39/41°API
Sulphur content: 0.50%
Transport system: Oil piped via Claymore to Flotta terminal. Gas piped to Tartan and through to St. Fergus terminal via Frigg pipeline.
Extension into other UK blocks: None
Remarks: Subsea production manifold; semisub floating production facility AH001. Five production wells and three injection wells.