Langeled Gas Pipeline
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Summary Information
- Source: Nyhamna, Norway
- Destination: Easington on the English east coast
- Ownership: Gassco
- Website: http://www.gassco.no/
- Length: 1,166 kilometres ( miles)
- Capacity: 69.4 million Mscm per day
- Status: Operating
+++ Details
- Running for 1 166 kilometres, Langeled ranks as the world’s longest underwater gas pipeline. It has been constructed to carry gas from the Ormen Lange Gas Field in the Norwegian Sea
- The system starts from the processing plant at Nyhamna on the mid-Norwegian coast. Its 42-inch northern leg carries gas to the Sleipner Gas and Condensate Field in the North Sea
- The southern leg of Langeled is a 44-inch pipeline from the Sleipner Gas and Condensate Field to the receiving terminal at Easington on the English east coast
- Langeled has a total annual capacity of 20 billion cubic metres, or a fifth of Britain’s gas requirements
+++ Contractors
- **Stolt Offshore:** was responsible for the installation of 362 kilometres of 42-inch diameter pipeline starting outside Nyhamna, through the Norwegian Trench towards the Sleipner Platform
- **Stolt Offshore:** Installation of 540 kilometres of 44-inch diameter pipeline
- **ABB:** Automation, safety, and information management systems
+++ History
- 2003 - Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and the UK Department of Trade and Industry sign agreement for the pipeline
- 2003 - Stolt Offshore wins installation contract
- 2004 - Stolt Offshore Wins 2006 Workscope for Langeled Pipelay
- 2005 - Construction of the pipeline began
- 2006 - Operations began on the southern leg
- 2006 - Gassco took over the operatorship of the pipeline
- 2007 - Operations began on the Northern leg
+++ Other Information
- The project was originally named Britpipe
+++ Links
- Gassco, Langeled
- Serimax Europe Pipeline References
- Langeled South operational
- ABB technology helps boost Norway’s gas exports
- Gas transport agreement
- Trenching starts for Langeled
- Langeled operatorship taken over
- Stolt Offshore Wins 2006 Workscope for Langeled Pipelay
- Stolt Offshore S.A. Announces $280 million Contract Award