Uchenna Izundu
International Editor
LONDON, Feb. 5 -- Statoil ASA has let a contract to the Linde Group to design an expansion of the Kollsnes gas processing plant near Bergen in western Norway to 183 million cu m/day from 143 million cu m/day. The value of the deal was not disclosed.
Linde will add a dew point control train, two gas compressor trains of 33 million cu m/day capacity, and associated auxiliary facilities. The Kollsnes plant processes gas from Troll, Kvitebjørn, and Visund in the North Sea and exports it through four pipeline systems to continental Europe.
The extension of the Kollsnes facility is of strategic importance to Germany, Linde said. The extension of Kollsnes will allow Germany to receive more gas from Norway in the future, it added.
In November Statoil awarded a contract to Vetco Aibel to design, install, construct, and commission a gas compressor from the condensate plant and a condensate train for completion in 2008 (OGJ Online, Dec. 4, 2006). This work is the basis for future capacity expansions.
Gassled—a joint venture of oil and gas companies on the Norwegian continental shelf and the owner of the Norwegian gas transport infrastructure—owns Kollsnes, which is operated by Gassco AS, with Statoil as the technical service provider.
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