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Nordstream starts gas flow in second pipeline
The second of Nordstream’s two pipelines, which link Russia to the EU via the Baltic Sea, came on stream last month on time and on budget, according to the project management team.
The first of the two 1,224km pipelines commenced operation in November of 2011. The two pipelines are capable of transporting up to 55bn m3
of natural gas each year, equivalent to one quarter
of the predicted additional gas imports into the EU by 2030. The pipeline commissioning
was marked by a ceremony at Portovaya Bay on Russia’s Baltic coast, where the pipeline begins its crossing. Flow was started by Sergei Popov (pictured), director of the Gazprom gas complex preparatory station. Nordstream is an interna- tional joint venture between Gazprom, which holds a 51% share, and the European companies Wintershall Holding, E.ON Ruhrgas, Nederlandse Gasunie and GDF Suez. ❙
www.nord-stream.com
Metalloinvest supplies pipe project
Russia’s Metalloinvest has announced it is to supply rolled steel to the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (Chelpipe) for a major project for Sibur. Chelpipe signed an
agreement this summer that will see it supply 170,000 tonnes of three-layer PE coated steel pipe to Sibur for
construction of a pipeline from the Purovsky Gas Condensate Processing Plant to Tobolsk- Neftekhim. The pipes will be delivered in several phases between now and 2014. Metalloinvest said the deal is part of a plan to further develop its supply business with Chelpipe.
“We have a strategic
long-term collaboration with ChelPipe. We are keen to broaden our cooperation in order to jointly implement the most complicated infrastruc- ture projects,” said Nazim Efendiev, Metalloinvest first deputy CEO and sales director. ❙
www.metalloinvest.com
Arcan’s Ethel field pipeline in operation
Canada’s Arcan Resources has commissioned an oil gathering pipeline in the Ethel light oil field in Alberta. The new pipeline carries
the production from 30 horizontal wells in the Ethel area to a processing at the Deer Mountain Unit 2 facility.
The pipeline will,
together with the newly completed Pembina Pipeline upgrade, enable the company to deliver its entire production to the Pembina sales terminal by pipe. “Together with Pem-
bina’s Moosehorn project, these two pipeline systems will contribute to lower operating costs and reduced downtime across both the Deer Mountain Unit and Ethel. The new infrastructure provides the foundation for full field development of this long-life, light oil asset,” said Arcan president Doug Penner. ❙
www.arcanres.com
Technip wins UAE and US pipeline contracts
A consortium between Technip and the National Petroleum Construction Company has won a contract to engineer, install and commission the Upper Zakum 750K project, which is located 84km offshore of Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The Upper Zakum 750K
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project , which is managed by the Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), is com- prised of four artificial islands, one of which also houses a processing facility. The contract includes 240km of subsea pipelines ranging from 6 to 42-inch
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diameter, 128km of subsea cabling, and some 30,000 tonnes of structures including jackets, riser platforms and island modules. Technip said it expects it to be completed in the third quarter of 2015. Technip has also been
commissioned for a project in
the Dalmation field in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract, awarded by US-based Murphy Exploration & Production, includes installation of a 38km flow line and 34km pipe-in- pipe flowline at depths of between 530 and 1,880m. ❙
www.technip.com
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