Nyhamna Gas Plant

Nyhamna Gas Plant

Nyhamna gas terminal
Shown within Norway
Alternative names Nyhamna, Ormen Lange Land Facility, Ormen Lange landanlegg
General information
Type Gas terminal
Location Aukra, Møre og Romsdal[1]
Coordinates 62°49′55″N 6°55′48″E / 62.832°N 6.93°E / 62.832; 6.93
Construction started 16 April 2004
Completed September 2007
Owner Norske Shell
Design and construction
Services engineer Vetco Aibel, AF Group
Civil engineer Skanska, NCC
Main contractor Aker Kvaerner

The Nyhamna Gas Plant is a large and significant natural-gas processing plant in Aukra, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Before the plant opened, Norway was the world's third-largest gas exporter, after Russia and Canada, and now is the second-largest exporter of gas.

History

Construction began around 2005, and the project was expected to cost £5.5bn pounds, including the extremely-long undersea pipeline. The gas plant was built for the Ormen Lange gas field, named after a ship of a Viking king. The head of the Ormen Lange project was Tom Rotjer. The site was built by Norsk Hydro, with partnership with Shell, Petoro and ExxonMobil. When being built, the plant was Norway's largest construction project.

In 2005, Norway supplied 15% of the UK's natural gas. Once the gas plant was up and running, 20% of the UK's gas was coming from the Langeled pipeline; it keeps around 10 million British people warm.

Shell took over as operator on 1 December 2007.

Operation

It is situated near Gossa (island) at Nyhamna. Nyhamna has about 3,000 residents.

Langeled pipeline

The Langeled pipeline was built for Norsk Hydro, to begin operation in 2007, via the Sleipner gas field; as it passes through the Sleipner field, it is possible for this gas to be diverted to other countries. The pipeline travels an incredible 745 miles (1,200 km) to the Easington Gas Terminal in Yorkshire, England. The pipeline was built around the clock, 24 hours a day, with the pipeline sections being welded on Acergy's construction ship LB200; it could lay about 4 km a day. It required 1.2 million tonnes of steel. Langeled was the responsibility of Statoil. The pipeline sections for the southern section were assembled at the Bredero Shaw site in Farsund in Southern Norway (Sørlandet). The northern section was assembled at Måløy in Western Norway, and the middle sections were assembled at Sotra in Western Norway.

From Nyhamna to Sleipner, the pipeline is 42 inches diameter, and from Sleipner to Easington it is 44 inches diameter. The section from Sleipner to Easington became operational on Sunday 1 October 2006. The project for the pipeline had begun in October 2004.

Gas fields

Ormen Lange

Ormen Lange is around 65 miles west of the gas plant. The field was discovered by Norsk Hydro in 1997. The wells were drilled by the ship West Navigator. The operation of Ormen Lange was owned 18% by Norsk Hydro, 17% by Norske Shell, 36% by Petoro, 10% by Statoil, 10% by Dansk Olie og Naturgas, and 7% by ExxonMobil (Esso). Ormen Lange is Norway's second largest gas field.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Gas from Ormen Lange will be imported from the production platforms to a processing plant at Nyhamna in Norway. - Image - Hydrocarbons Technology". hydrocarbons-technology.com. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
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