Snøhvit plant ready for shipment to Melkøya

June 28, 2005
Statoil ASA said its barge-mounted production plant for the Snøhvit LNG project in the Barents Sea is ready to be shipped from the Dragados Offshore fabrication yard in Cádiz, Spain, to the island of Melkøya outside Hammerfest in northern Norway.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 28 -- Statoil ASA said its barge-mounted production plant for the Snøhvit LNG project in the Barents Sea is ready to be shipped from the Dragados Offshore fabrication yard in Cádiz, Spain, to the island of Melkøya outside Hammerfest in northern Norway.

The 33,000-tonne unit will be transported on the Blue Marlin heavy-lift vessel. The trip is expected to take just under 14 days. At Melkøya, the plant will be moved into a dock when wind and weather permit.

The plant is an integrated unit on a barge with a deck area 154 m long and 54 m wide.

It is to export 5.7 billion cu m/year of LNG to the US and Europe in the second half of 2006.