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New Statoil pipeline planned in North Sea to connect two oilfields

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Statoil and four partners have agreed to build a US$ 343 million pipeline to link the Edvard Grieg and Ivar Aasen oilfields with existing pipelines in the North Sea, the company announced yesterday.

The fields, now under development, are located on the Utsira High geological formation, which also includes the giant Johan Sverdrup field, which may hold up to 3.3 billion boe. That field is yet to be developed.

Pipeline schedule

The new 43 km pipeline will come online in Autumn 2015 to transport oil to the nearby Grane oilfield, which is already connected by pipeline to the Sture oil terminal on Norway's west coast.

Project structure

Aside from Statoil, the other partners in the Grieg and Aasen fields are Sweden's Lundin Petroleum, Germany's Bayerngas and Wintershall, which is a unit of German chemicals giant BASF, Norway's Det norske and Austria's OMV.

The transport solution is a precondition for developing the Edvard Grieg (operated by Lundin) and Ivar Aasen (operated by Det norske oljeselskap) fields.

Edvard Grieg is scheduled to start producing in 2015 and Ivar Aasen in 2016. The new pipeline will be called the Edvard Grieg oil pipeline.

Statoil is a partner in both fields and operator for the joint venture for oil transport.

Pipeline specifics

A plan for installation and operation (PIO) has been submitted to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

The PIO is expected to be approved this Autumn. Pipeline production will be completed in 2013. Pipeline coating will be completed in 2014.

Installation of new connection point in the Grane oil pipeline will be carried out in connection with the planned shutdown of Grane in the Spring of 2014.

Pipeline installation in the Summer of 2014 and tie-in operations in 2015, so it will be ready for the start of production in the Autumn of 2015.

Edited from various sources by Elizabeth Corner.

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