TPi May 2016

products & developments

Pipes for Johan Sverdrup oilfield Norway is currently developing a huge oilfield in the North Sea, and hoping that this will secure its position on the oil market for the next 30 years. Butting was granted the order to produce and deliver longitudinally welded, corrosion- resistant pipes for this project.

billion barrels will be extracted in this way.

Norwegian trading companies granted Butting the order to produce and deliver longitudinally welded, corrosion-resistant pipes for the Johan Sverdrup oilfield. Statoil and Lundin Norway are the operators of the oilfield. Christian Schenk from the CRA pipes department commented, “The order volume up to now already comprises almost 1,000 tons of duplex, super-duplex and 6 moly materials. The dimensions range from 6" to 30", with wall thicknesses between 3 and 40mm. In all our activities we endeavour to achieve top performance and in this major project too we will put in every effort to deliver the materials to the construction yards on schedule.” H Butting GmbH & Co KG – Germany info@butting.de www.butting.com

The oil price is at its lowest level for more than 13 years. Norway, a country where the oil and gas industry contributes around 20 per cent to the annual GDP, is struggling with these low oil prices. Nevertheless, Norway decided in 2015 to develop a new oilfield. The field was named after the Norwegian prime minister Johan Sverdrup, who was in office between 1884 and 1889. The Johan Sverdrup oilfield was discov- ered in 2010 and is in the Utsira High region of the North Sea, 140km from the coast at Stavanger. The oil deposit is 120m below the surface of the water, and is 1,900m deep. The first phase

The first phase includes erecting four platforms

in the oilfield development includes erecting four platforms: a processing platform, a riser platform, a drilling platform and a living quarters platform. After the expected start of production at the end of 2019, Norway plans to extract oil from the field until 2050. A pipeline is intended to transport around 550,000 barrels of oil a day to the Mongstad terminal in Horaland. It is estimated that between 1.8 and 2.9

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