Nyhamna Gas Plant
| Nyhamna Gas Plant | |
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Nyhamna gas terminal
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 Shown within Norway
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| Alternative names | Nyhamna, Ormen Lange Land Facility, Ormen Lange landanlegg |
| General information | |
| Type | Gas terminal |
| Location | Aukra, Møre og Romsdal |
| Coordinates | 62°49′55″N 6°55′48″E / 62.832°N 6.93°E |
| Construction started | 16 April 2004 |
| Completed | September 2007 |
| Owner | Norske Shell |
| Design and construction | |
| Services engineer | Vetco Aibel, AF Group |
| Civil engineer | Skanska, NCC |
| Main contractor | Aker Kvaerner |
The Nyhamna Gas Plant is a large and significant natural-gas processing plant in Aukra, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Before the plant opened, Norway was the world's third-largest gas exporter, after Russia and Canada, and now is the second-largest exporter of gas.
Construction began around 2005, and the project was expected to cost £5.5bn pounds, including the extremely-long undersea pipeline. The gas plant was built for the Ormen Lange gas field, named after a ship of a Viking king. The head of the Ormen Lange project was Tom Rotjer. The site was built by Norsk Hydro, with partnership with Shell, Petoro and ExxonMobil. When being built, the plant was Norway's largest construction project.
In 2005, Norway supplied 15% of the UK's natural gas. Once the gas plant was up and running, 20% of the UK's gas was coming from the Langeled pipeline; it keeps around 10 million British people warm.
Shell took over as operator on 1 December 2007.
It is situated near Gossa (island) at Nyhamna. Nyhamna has about 3,000 residents.
The Langeled pipeline was built for Norsk Hydro, to begin operation in 2007, via the Sleipner gas field; as it passes through the Sleipner field, it is possible for this gas to be diverted to other countries. The pipeline travels an incredible 745 miles (1,200 km) to the Easington Gas Terminal in Yorkshire, England. The pipeline was built around the clock, 24 hours a day, with the pipeline sections being welded on Acergy's construction ship LB200; it could lay about 4 km a day. It required 1.2 million tonnes of steel. Langeled was the responsibility of Statoil. The pipeline sections for the southern section were assembled at the Bredero Shaw site in Farsund in Southern Norway (Sørlandet). The northern section was assembled at Måløy in Western Norway, and the middle sections were assembled at Sotra in Western Norway.
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