Trelleborg supports worlds first full scale floating wind turbine

Trelleborg supports worlds first full scale floating wind turbine

Statoil’s innovative new offshore floating Hywind wind turbine, now successfully moored in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast, is demonstrating how Trelleborg Offshore’s syntactic foam buoyancy technology is contributing to the future of offshore power generation. Full text

PSA has granted Shell consent to use Ormen Lange subsea template D with appurtenant lines

2010.07.16 - Projects

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has granted A/S Norske Shell (Shell) consent to use Ormen Lange subsea template D with appurtenant lines.

The consent covers use of Ormen Lange subsea template D and manifold with appurtenant intra-field pipelines, umbilical and pipeline end modules.

Production start-up from the first well on subsea template D is planned for July 2010.




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