TechnipFMC's Subsea Production System for Equinor's Irpa Project
Energy in November 2022.The Irpa gas discovery, sitting in the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 1350 meters, is located 340 kilometers west of Bodø. The gas from the field will be phased into the existing Aasta Hansteen platform and transported to the Nyhamna gas processing plant through the Polarled pipeline. From there, Equinor's customers in the UK and continental Europe will get gas through the Langeled pipeline system. Irpa will extend the life of Aasta Hansteen by seven years, from 2032 to 2039. Aasta Hansteen came on stream in December 2018.Equinor says that Irpa's expected recoverabl
Statoil: High Activity in Deep Waters
community in general – involving a range of services from food supply to transportation. “The Aasta Hansteen SURF project has led to major spin-offs in North Norway, for example manufacturing of subsea templates, spooles and suction anchors as well as coating of pipes for the Polarled pipeline and also base services. Drilling on the field will start at the turn of the year 2017/2018, involving helicopter traffic from Brønnøysund and base services in Sandnessjøen. In the operations phase Aasta Hansteen will be even more visible in the north,” says Torolf
Statoil's New gas Discovery at Aasta Hansteen
Operator Statoil has together with PL218 partners made a gas discovery in the Snefrid Nord prospect in the Norwegian Sea. The discovery is an important contribution to the Aasta Hansteen field development project and Polarled pipeline utilisation. “The Snefrid Nord discovery increases the resource base for the Aasta Hansteen field development project by around 15%,” says Irene Rummelhoff, senior vice president exploration Norway in Statoil. The Snefrid Nord discovery is located in the deep-water Vøring area in the immediate proximity of the three gas discoveries comprising
Van Oord Breaks Subsea Rock installation Record
Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes built by CIMC Raffles has set a world record. During a period of four weeks, Stornes placed rock in water depths of up to 1,277 metres. The Subsea Rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Aasta Hansteen gas field and Polarled pipeline in the Norwegian Sea. Recently Van Oord completed the first phase of these record subsea rock installation works, for energy company Statoil. Van Oord will execute the second phase in 2015. Then, rock will be placed after the pipelines and templates have been installed. Subsea Rock
Cost Blowouts on Norway's New Oil Developments
cost 16.2 billion crowns, 4 billion crowns more than expected last year and 36 percent more than initially. BG controls 45 percent of Knarr, together with Japan's Idemitsu which has 25 percent, Wintershall, a unit of Germany's BASF with 20 percent, and RWE Dea with 10 percent. But Statoil's Polarled pipeline - Norway's biggest current pipeline investment - could cost 10 percent less than earlier projected, with the new price tag sees at 22.6 billion crowns, the ministry said. Statoil's Aasgard development, the world's first subsea gas compression projects, however, will cost 8 percent more than
Aasta Hansteen Project Creates 200 Jobs
,” Christensen says. The bulk of these jobs are located in Mo i Rana, where Momek is constructing 32 suction anchors for Subsea 7 for the Aasta Hansteen project. Wasco Energy is building a plant in Mo i Rana for the application of a concrete coating on 40 000 individual pipes for the Polarled pipeline. In addition Aker Solutions will employ some 50 people at Sandnessjøen for the construction of the subsea templates for the field. “Aasta Hansteen is set to create greater local and regional spinoff effects than we assumed in the Plan for Development and Operation.
Polarled Extreme Depth Pipeline Contract
The Polarled-pipeline will export gas from Statoil's Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to the Nyhamna gas plant. Statoil has awarded Marubeni Itochu/JFE the fabrication contract for linepipe to the Polarled project, while Wasco has been awarded the coating contract, and Allseas the pipe-laying contract. The coating contract includes the establishment of a new production base in Mo i Rana, Northern Norway. "The Norwegian Sea is an exciting area on the Norwegian continental shelf. Polarled underpins this. Establishing new infrastructure increases the opportunities for the discoveries
Subsea Gas Pipeline to Cross Polar Circle
Statoil awards Ramboll Oil & Gas the detailed design contract for the 36” & 18" pipelines for the 481 km-long Polarled project. The Polarled pipeline project, which crosses the Polar circle, is part of the plans for developing fields further north in the Norwegian Sea. The purpose is to ensure gas transport capacity for gas volumes from planned and future field developments, such as the field developments of Aasta Hansteen, Linnorm and Zidane. Part of the 36” Polarled pipeline will be installed at a water depth of 1.3 km which poses unique challenges during the installatio