Statoil said the pipe could also be linked to the existing Asgard gas pipeline via the Kristin platform. The recommendation was put to the 13-member Norwegian Sea Gas Infrastructure (NSGI) group - which includes Royal Dutch Shell, operator of the Linnorm field and Nyhamna gas processing terminal, and Zidane operator RWE-Dea - and NSGI leader Statoil said last week it had been accepted.
Linnorm draugen plus#
The line, to be ready by 2016, could also take gas from Linnorm and Zidane, plus any nearby commercial discoveries. Norwegian subsea gas grid operator Gassco in September 2011 recommended that a 480-kilometer pipeline be built to link the Statoil-operated Luva field to Nyhamna, on the Norwegian coast, capable of flowing 25.5 Bcm/yr.
Similarly big investment decisions loom in late 2012 or early 2013 for the Luva, Linnorm and Zidane fields, also in the Norwegian Sea, that will boost Norway's gas export potential from 2016-17 onward. After more than five years of planning and development, the BP-led Skarv-Idun field in the Norwegian Sea should come on line this April, adding 5.5 billion cubic meters per year (531 million cubic feet per day) to gas production capacity.
Norway's pipeline gas sales fell last year to well below export capacity - but in a world where gas demand looks set to rise, that's no reason to stop planning expansions.
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