Offshore staff

COPENHAGEN, Denmark --Statoil has contracted Ramboll Oil & Gas for detailed design of a pipeline system related to the Gjøa field development in the Norwegian North Sea.

The contract covers design of export and in-field lines, as well as all associated pipeline structures. Statoil's plan involves a 131 km (81.4 mi) gas export line connecting Gjøa, 45 km (27.96 mi) west of Sognefjord, to the UK's gas transmission system. A separate 55 km (34.18 mi) oil export line will run from the field's semisubmersible platform to the Kvitebjorn pipeline that terminates in Mongstad.

The in-field lines will connect five seabed templates with up to 17 wells. Ramboll is working with IKM Ocean Design and Nemo Engineering on this project.

5/9/2007