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Ăystein Michelsen, executive vice president for Exploration & Production Norway.
âThis is an important day for us,â says Ăystein Michelsen, executive vice president for Exploration & Production Norway (EPN).
âThe Gudrun field will add important volume, improve the capacity utilisation on Sleipner and help maintain the production level on the Norwegian continental shelf.â
Gudrun is to be developed with a platform resting on the seabed including a traditional steel jacket weighing 7400 tonnes.
The platform will have a processing facility for partial processing of oil and gas, before the hydrocarbons are piped to the Sleipner field.
On Sleipner the oil and gas from Gudrun will be further processed before the oil is transported to Kürstø together with the Sleipner condensate.
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The Gudrun plattorm illustration
Carbon dioxide will be separated from the gas before it is exported to Europe via the Gassled system.
Power to the Gudrun platform will be supplied by cable from Sleipner.
Contracts awarded
A contract for transport and installation (T&I) has been awarded to Saipem UK Limited. The platform jacket and topside will be installed by the semi-submersible crane vessel S7000.
A contract for constructing the platform jacket has previously been awarded to Aker Solutions in Verdal.
The jacket is scheduled to be completed and installed in the summer of 2011 before drilling of the wells begins in October 2011.
The remaining contracts for construction of the platform topside and living quarters, modification of the Sleipner A platform and the contract for pipeline fabrication and laying will be awarded later this year.
Investment in field installations, pipelines and drilling of production wells will total almost NOK 21 billion.
Facts
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