Nyhamna Gas Plant
The Nyhamna Gas Plant is a large and significant natural-gas processing plant in Aukra Municipality, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. As of January 2018, Norway was the world's third-largest natural gas exporter, after Russia and Qatar.
History
Construction of the plant began around 2005, and was expected to cost about, including the extremely long undersea pipeline. The gas plant was built for the Ormen Lange gas field, named after a ship of a Viking king. The head of the Ormen Lange project was Tom Rotjer. The site was built by Norsk Hydro, with partnership with Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and Petoro which is owned by the Norwegian government. When being built, the plant was Norway's largest construction project.In 2005, Norway supplied 15% of the UK's natural gas. Once the gas plant was up and running, 20% of the UK's gas was coming from the Langeled pipeline. It supplies heat to around 10 million British people.
Shell took over as operator on 1 December 2007.
Statnett built a gas power plant in 2008, but it only operated 400 hours in 10 years, and was put up for sale.
Operation
It is situated at Nyhamna on the island of Gossa in Aukra Municipality. The island municipality has about 3,600 residents.Langeled pipeline
The Langeled pipeline was built for Norsk Hydro, to begin operation in 2007, via the Sleipner gas field; as it passes through the Sleipner field, it is possible for this gas to be diverted to other countries. The pipeline travels an incredible 745 miles to the Easington Gas Terminal in Yorkshire, England. The pipeline was built around the clock, 24 hours a day, with the pipeline sections being welded on Acergy's construction ship LB200, which could lay about 4 km a day. It required 1.2 million tonnes of steel. Langeled was the responsibility of Statoil. The pipeline sections for the southern section were assembled at the Bredero Shaw site in Farsund in Southern Norway. The northern section was assembled at Måløy in Western Norway, and the middle sections at Sotra in Western Norway.From Nyhamna to Sleipner, the pipeline has a diameter, and from Sleipner to Easington it has a diameter. The section from Sleipner to Easington became operational on Sunday 1 October 2006. The project for the pipeline had begun in October 2004.