Offshore staff

Statoil shipped its barge-mounted LNG production plant for the Snøhvit project in the Barents Sea north from the the Dragados Offshore yard in Cádiz, Spain. The plant is an integrated unit on a 154 by 54 m barge.

TheBlue Marlin heavy-lift vessel is moving the processing plant to the Melkøya site outside Hammerfest in northern Norway, which will take 14 days. After its arrival at Melkøya, workers will move the barge into a pre-excavated dock.

The LNG plant will export 5.7 bcm annually to the US and Europe beginning 3Q 2006. The 33,000-tonne unit is Statoil's first and Europe's only export LNG facility.

6/28/05