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SPECIAL REPORT: Snorre A upgrade includes new module

08/20/2007
Statoil AS is nearing completion for upgrading the Snorre A platform, with the recent installation of a new module. The 455-tonne module includes a control room, kitchen, lifeboat station, and living quarters.The Snorre A tension-leg platform is in the Tampen area off Norway and has been on stream since March 1992.New moduleInstallation of the module, built by Leirvik Module Technology’s (LMT) at Stord, north of Stavanger, involved the Saipem 7000 crane lifting the module onto the northwest corner of the TLP (Fig. 1). Statoil says the module construction contract was worth about 125 million kroner and the contract for Sorco to perform hookup and commissioning was worth about 160 mil...
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