news €530m Polarled contracts placed
Norway’s Statoil has awarded contracts valued at NOK 4bn (€530m) for the fabrication and installation of the Polarled pipeline, which will link the company’s new Aasta Hansteen field in the sea off Norway to its Nyhamma gas plant. The contract for the fabrica- tion of the 482km 36-inch line pipe has been awarded to Marubeni Itochu/JFE while coating will be undertaken by Wasco and laying carried out by Allseas. The coating component of
the contract is worth around NOK 1.2bn (€160m). Internal and external anti-corrosion coatings will be applied at Wasco plant in Malaysia, with
concrete coating applied at a facility to be established at Mo I Rana in the North of Norway. According to Statoil, the
Polarled project breaks new ground in using a steel pipe of
this large diameter laid at depths up to 1,265m. The Aasta Hansteen field will also be the first to use a floating SPAR platform on the Norwegian continental shelf.
“The Norwegian Sea is an
exciting area on the Norwegian continental shelf. Polarled underpins this. Establishing new infrastructure increases the opportunities for the discoveries already made, and at the same time paves the way for further exploration and the development of future discover- ies,” said Rune Bjørnson, Statoil’s head of natural gas. The pipeline project will
Polarled will connect Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field
ExxonMobil starts up at Kearl
ExxonMobil has started up its Kearl oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, which will provide 110,000 barrels/day ramping to 220,000 barrels/ day in 2015. The Kearl facility is the first oil sands unit to operate without an upgrader. This is claimed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to levels similar to other US crude production methods.
“By combining a high-quali-
ty resource with our propri- etary technologies, proven project execution capability and operational excellence, Kearl will provide attractive returns over the long term with a smaller environmental footprint than traditional oil sands mining,” said ExxonMo- bil Development president Neil Duffin in a statement this month.
The new plant uses a
proprietary paraffinic froth treatment to produce bitumen with no need for on-site upgrading. Planned energy co-generation will further reduce its energy needs, claims ExxonMobil. The Kearl project is
expected to produce 4.6bn barrels of oil over 40 years, according to the company. ❙
www.exxonmobil.com
Russia ends Azeri oil agreement
Russia has terminated a 16-year contract under which it allowed Azerbaijan to pump oil from Baku in Azeri to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossisk, saying that current shipment volumes were insufficient, according to reports by Reuters. The news agency said when the deal was
signed Azerbaijan guaranteed to ship at least 5m tonnes of oil a year through the 1,330km pipeline; it now pumps just 2m tonnes. Reuters reports Russia’s Transneft, which
operates the Russian section of the pipeline, has said deliveries will be unaffected this year but that transit charges may change from 2014.
require 325,000 tonnes of steel pipe. Pipe laying will begin in March 2015 with pulling at Nyhamma. Pipeline lay down at Aasta Hansteen is sched- uled for the third quarter of 2015, said Statoil. ❙
www.statoil.com
Iran commits to invest
The head of the Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommuni- cation Company, Ali Ziar has announced a major investment in maintenance and construction of the country’s oil pipeline network, according to reports in the FARS News Agency. Ziar told the news agency that projects for the current year include inspection pigging of 6,000km of pipeline and construction of three new projects : the Farashband- Shiraz condensates pipeline, Tabriz-Khoi-Oru- miyeh oil pipeline, and the Abadan-Rey pipeline.
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