Offshore staff

STAVANGER, Norway --The subsea systems at Snøhvit field off Hammerfest, northern Norway went onstream yesterday, May 28.

"The entire subsea system has been project approved and just handed over to the operations organization," says Gunnar Myrebøe, who heads the Snøhvit subsea development. "We're taking the wellstream ashore to the land plant now, while we have a vessel out at the field. This vessel will leave the field in the next few days."

All Snøhvit's offshore systems are on the seabed and are controlled from land via a 144-km (89-mi) long control cable. The wellstream is transported ashore via a 143-km pipeline. Both pipeline and cable are the world's longest of their kind.

5/29/2007