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INTERCONNECTED

OEDigital is the link connecting your media with our worldwide audience of highly qualified buyers in the back and learn from these events. That is the essence of the entire collaboration," explained Shell's Project Director, oil and gas industry.

Richard Crichton, who championed the philosophy. He said the goal was to build such a high level of trust that the lines between companies would blur into a true 'one team' approach. "In the end, you can't tell if someone works for

Shell or for OneSubsea," Crichton stated. "That's when you get real collaboration."

Underpinning this was a foundation of psychological safety—the assurance that team members could report bad news unfltered, without fear of blame. "A 'blame game' about why something didn't work would simply not have worked," Crichton noted. This sentiment was shared by Hjelmeland. “I believe a large part of the suc- cess was because we managed to break down the barri- ers in the commercial framework and share information openly,” he asserted. “I don’t think we would have suc- ceeded without this collaboration”.

A New Benchmark

From the tense moment of the initial failed test at

Horsøy, the project culminated in a seamless inaugura- tion on August 26, 2025. This success established sev- eral new industry benchmarks. It’s the world’s frst subsea processing project that completely removes the need to build and maintain a platform, a true subsea-to-beach solution. Moreover, its 120-kilometer step-out distance from shore sets a new world record for power transmis- sion to a subsea compression system. By providing com- pression energy close to the reservoir, the technology in- creases the recovery rate in Norway's second-largest gas feld from 75% to a world-class 85%. This unlocks an additional 30 to 50 billion cubic meters of gas, which is enough to power all households in a city the size of

Barcelona, and could generate up to 70 billion NOK in additional revenue for the Norwegian state.

Powered by Norwegian hydropower and processed in a

Learn more at closed system, the facility also has one of the lowest carbon footprints per unit of energy in the world. The legacy of

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Ormen Lange Phase 3 is a proven toolkit that is now rep- licable globally.

“The frst lesson is technology,” Hjelmeland concluded. “Subsea processing has enormous value. The second is the new way of working—in partnership, with a learner mind- set. Taking this lesson with us, together with our technol-

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ogy portfolio, makes the future very exciting”.

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