The sea snake stirs: an update on Ormen Lange

摘要

By 2007, the Ormen Lange gas field off the Norwegian coast will supply the UK with roughly 20 per cent of its gas. Valve World Investigates the project's formidable challenges and examines the role played by valves In supplying the solutions. In the last 18 months a part of Norway's coastline has undergone a dramatic facelift. Pipes, cables and foundations have been laid in preparation for an LNG process plant at Nyhamna, near Kristian-sund, on Norway's west coast. Electric installations, water works, roads, a hotel, a quay and other structures have conspired to make the place all but unrecognizable. Bulldozing, loaders, cranes and above all people throng what is currently Norway's largest building site.