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Designs on the future

First oil from the Gina Krog development Copenhagen’s Ramboll wo major Statoil projects are is expected 2017. Photo from Statoil.

scheduled to come online in

Group pocketed two intricate

T 2017. Engineering, design, and management consultancy group Ramboll and at the same time paves the way for

Statoil pipeline contracts and are behind subsea pipeline design for further exploration and the develop- announced a new ofce in both of them. The Copenhagen-based ment of future discoveries,” said Rune company is responsible for the design Bjørnson, Statoil’s senior vice president

Houston. Sarah Parker Musarra and engineering of the Polarled subsea of Natural Gas, in 2013. discussed the company’s pipeline, connecting the Aasta Hansteen The Norwegian giant labeled Gina platform with the Nyhamna terminal, Krog as “among [its] major new develop- latest developments with Project and the pipelines of the Gina Krog feld ments.” While it might seem unbeliev-

Manager Jan Bohl Andersen. development. The Polarled pipeline will able that its pipeline design and install be fnalized 4Q 2016. phases could be considered as challeng-

The large Polarled pipeline will cross ing as the complicated, record-breaking the Polar Circle, and will be laid in Polarled pipeline, Ramboll’s Gina Krog record water depth for its 36in. size, with Project Manager Jan Bohl Andersen an inner diameter of 34in., exporting gas insists that it is so. from the Aasta Hansteen development It will be engineered with great care,” in the Norwegian Sea to the Nyhamna Andersen said, chuckling at the over- gas plant. With the capacity for future whelming nature of his understatement. developments to be tied in, it stands to

Gina Krog make a major impact on Norwegian Sea production. Originally known as Dagny feld, the now- “The Norwegian Sea is an exciting NOK26 billion (US$4.3 billion) Gina Krog area on the Norwegian continental shelf. project was originally considered a minor

Polarled underpins this. Establishing gas development after the discovery of its new infrastructure increases the oppor- 15/5-1 well in 1974. tunities for the discoveries already made, Located around 230km southwest off

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