Polarled Gas Pipeline

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Polarled Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.[1][2]

Location

The pipeline runs from the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to the Nyhamna Gas Plant in Aukra, Norway.[3]

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Project Details

  • Operator: Gassco[4]
  • Parent Company: Statoil 37.076%; Wintershall Norge AS 13.255%; Petoro AS 11.946%; OMV (Norge) AS 9.073%; CapeOmega 16.692%; Total E&P Norge AS 5.11%; ConocoPhillips AS 4.452%; Edison International S.p.A. Norway Branch 2.396%
  • Current capacity: 25.6 billion cubic meters per year
  • Proposed capacity:
  • Length: 481 kilometers[5]
  • Diameter: 36 inches[4] [6]
  • Cost: US$762 million[7]
  • Financing:
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start Year: 2017[5]

Background

Construction of the pipeline began in 2015, and it expected to begin delivering gas the Nyhamna gas-processing plant in late 2018.[8]

The pipeline is operated by Gassco and owned by a consortium in which Gassco has the largest share: Statoil 37.076%; Wintershall Norge AS 13.255%; Petoro AS 11.946%; OMV (Norge) AS 9.073%; CapeOmega 16.692%; Total E&P Norge AS 5.11%; ConocoPhillips AS 4.452%; Edison International S.p.A. Norway Branch 2.396%.[9] CapeOmega purchased 9.019% of the pipeline from Norske Shell in October 2017,[10] and purchased a 4.791% share from DEA Norge in December 2017.[11]

The Polarled Gas Pipeline is the first pipeline to be laid across the Arctic Circle.[12]

In December 2018 the pipeline was commissioned.[1]

Articles and resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Polarled pipeline is now flowing, World Pipelines, Dec. 17, 2018
  2. Polarled Gas Pipeline, accessed April 2018
  3. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. "TUF - Main piplelines. The dataset contains not infield pipelines". Norwegian Petroleum Directorate - Open data. https://www.npd.no/en/about-us/information-services/open-data/. Retrieved October 13, 2021. {{cite web}}: External link in |location= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "NPD FactMaps". factmaps.npd.no. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gassco AS; The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (March 19, 2020). "Gas pipelines on the Norwegian continental shelf". Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Retrieved September 30, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Gassco. "The Norwegian Gas Transport System" (PDF). Gassco.no. Retrieved September 30, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Statoil hands over Polarled gas pipeline to Gassco, Offshore Energy, May 4, 2017
  8. Ownership of Norway's Nyhamna gas export plant to expand, Reuters, Mar. 17, 2017
  9. Statoil handing over the Polarled pipeline to Gassco, Statoil, May 1, 2017
  10. Shell sells off stakes in Norway's Polarled natural gas pipeline, Nyhamna plant, S&P Global Platts, Oct. 23, 2017
  11. DEA Divests Interest in Polarled, Nyhamna and Gassled, Subsea World News, Dec. 15, 2017
  12. Norway’s Polarled is first gas pipeline to cross Arctic Circle, Akron Beacon-Journal, Aug. 21, 2015

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