The Aasta Hansteen project, one of biggest and most complex industrial projects in Europe, is on schedule to begin production in 3Q 2017, says Statoil.
Statoil, which made a presentation about the project at ONS, in Stavanger, this week, added that with the Polarled pipeline, the company is taking the Norwegian gas infrastructure northward across the Arctic Circle for the first time.
Read OE's coverage on the Polarled pipeline project here.
"We are building the largest SPAR platform in the world, and we are setting a new depth record of 1300m for a field development and pipeline on the NCS," says Torolf Christensen, Statoil’s head of Aasta Hansteen.
The investments in Aasta Hansteen and the Polarled pipeline total US$9.2 billion (NOK57 billion).
The plan for development and operation was approved in 2013 with first offshore work beginning in summer 2014 that involved laying of a fiber-optic cable on the seabed and installation of rocks on the seabed for the pipeline. Today the project is under development in several parts of the world.
Statoil reports that the hull and the topside are being constructed in South Korea, while the equipment packages and subsea facility and pipeline equipment are delivered globally.
"Aasta Hansteen is a pioneering project with regard to local ripple effects. The development has so far realized more than $64.7 million (NOK400 million) in spinoff effects in northern Norway, and more than 200 people are involved in the construction of Aasta Hansteen and Polarled on the Helgeland coast," says Christensen.
Christensen added that Statoil expects considerable spinoffs in the installation work to be carried out offshore and during production drilling on the field. The main Aasta Hansteen spinoffs will occur in the field’s operating phase.
Statoil is reporting that suppliers with a Norwegian billing address are delivering more than half of the equipment packages for the Aasta Hansteen topside. The company added that in subsea equipment, 93% is being provided by suppliers with a Norwegian billing address.
In June, Subsea 7 selected BMT Scientific Marine Services, a subsidiary of BMT Group, to supply the riser monitoring system for the Aasta Hansteen Spar, about 300km off the coast of Norway.
The Aasta Hansteen Spar will be the world’s largest spar platform and the first of its kind on the NCS. Furthermore, the spar will be the first ever deepwater floating production platform (+1000m) installed in the harsh environment north of the Arctic Circle utilizing steel catenary risers.
Image of The Aasta Hansteen platform from GeoGraphic / Statoil
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