NORWAY’S Statoil has contracted Ramboll Oil & Gas to provide the detailed design of a pipeline system related to the Gjoa 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 gas-export pipeline connecting Gjoa, 45km west of Sognefjord, to the UK’s gas transmission system.
A separate 55-km 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 the project.