Ormen Lange subsea manifold ready for installation
2009.01.05 -
Projects
The enormous 44 m x 33 m x 15 m subsea station set for installation on the Ormen Lange gas field at a sea depth of 900 meters has been built at Grenland Group’s yard.
After an extensive testing period, the subsea station will in May be offloaded to a barge and transported to the Ormen Lange field 120 kilometres northwest of Kristiansund.
The subsea template from Grenland Group is a sub-contracted delivery to FMC's contract with Shell for Ormen Lange's subsea production systems.
The Ormen Lange field, which came on stream in 2007, was initially developed with two subsea well templates, with eight well slots each. The field's well stream of gas, condensate and water is transported from the subsea templates through two 30-inch diameter multi-phase pipelines, up the steep slope of the Storegga slide to Shell’s onshore processing facility at Aukra outside Molde.
Grenland Group is a world leading fabricator of subsea equipment to major subsea developments. Since 1996 we have delivered more than 170 manifold modules, integrated template systems, riser- and flow bases, and plem and host systems.
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The Piranema field, 25 km off the coast of Sergipe, started producing oil this Wednesday (10/10), in deep Northeastern Brazil waters. With operations going online in this field, Petrobras is taking another step towards maintaining Brazil’s oil self-sufficiency. The Piranema oil, of excellent quality, at 44º API, is the lightest oil produced in deep waters in Brazil.
The first tanker with a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Snøhvit field left port at Melkøya near Hammerfest, northern Norway
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited, has started production from the Marimba North project, designed to develop 80 million barrels of oil in approximately 3,900 feet (1,300 meters) of water more than 90 miles (145 kilometers) off the coast of Angola.
